It will take... maybe, gasp, China stopping trade with us!

I feel that my ideas of decentralized semi-autonomous manufacturing may be the way forward.
It is hard to do now, as can you imagine putting several hours of labor into a toaster and then selling it for $20 like wallymart does?

But, if we can get that down to 15 minutes, and make the toaster better, and save tons on shipping because it is made local, then we might have something

... and then, as supply chains get cut...