Heavy Industry Requires Direct State Control
Type of former textile and paper mills become overpriced lofts in many Western cities shows how light industry can pick up their belongings and leave the country at any time. Competition in the manufacture of relatively small portable consumer goods (anything smaller than a civilian vehicle) produced a huge leap in the evolution of technological gadgets. These egregious successes of capitalism, which can not be ignored. Thomas Friedman and Karl Marx spent half of his famous books, describing the effectiveness of these victories on the market. Dizzying pace of development of small consumer goods amounted to worsening economic / social power (most of the world population) is more tolerant of negating some of the suffering. While the world proletariat (99% of people worldwide who do not live exclusively capital investments such as neurosurgeons, 80 Grand, the white-collar “, McDonalds staff, etc.) were becoming poorer as a result of mechanization, light industry provided some relief. Shiny TVs, more powerful computers and Wi-Fi cell phones have masked a slight decline. In the end, one dollar in 2009 buys exponentially more computing power than a dollar in 1999 or 1989 is so small electronics as a form of stunning deflation.
Capital-intensive products of heavy industry are lagging behind but sorry. Dollar in 2009, does not make you much faster, traveling around the world than a dollar in 1989. It also does not give you much more, quantitatively and qualitatively higher level of education or health. Cosmic progress not only macro-technological sphere of activity, which is in stagnation. What happened to the space shuttle is in almost every heavy industry depends on the macro area of planetary activity. The main gap in product development as compared with the products HI LI main merit of the international community.
What products HI? We call some of them:
1) planes, trains, ships, bridges, tunnels, mines, deep-sea oil platforms, heavy transport ships, underwater habitats, habitats of deep space, power plants, large farms
2) Machines that create parts for products with higher added value, and the machines that make these machines, the factories where these machines, and that there are staff who used to run factories
3) support for infrastructure items in 1) and 2), for example, transport infrastructure, connecting the extraction of raw materials to processing plants to assembly plants on the distribution of plants (vertical up and down the chain)
60-year-old bridges are driven by 3 year old cars. Man of 1840 will be easily recognized trains today, when it comes to their function and utility. This man will not go through the same awe as the horse-riding courier would be in the form of a videoconference with laptops and such.
What people forget is that the bridges, ships, and factories full cutting edge robotics, just a big added value. Of course, in a factory that makes engines for spacecraft may have more moving parts in it than a mobile phone, but when it comes to the functioning of a specific set of singular assembly line, it is the only product that is in great demand of the buyer. Production of iron ore plant is also a product with multiple clients (large scale consumers). So why is it that the market has failed to make an evolutionary jump in the high consumer goods as exciting as those in the products of LI consumer?
Well, the general answer that, because these large consumer goods are capital intensive, it is difficult to get investments for a really large-scale exotic experiments in new media production and extraction. The argument is pointed out that because of the long-term nature of these complex projects, it is difficult to get enough investors with the patience and foresight to truly Stick Around.

