Ethan Thornton

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

Obviously, we had a number of them in the 40s.

Right now, China is that.

And that doesn't mean you necessarily go to war.

But it does mean that you exist in a geopolitical landscape of two parties that are actuating.

It's a good question.

I think we'll get into how I think we solve this.

And I do have institutional confidence, actually.

So I think it is near pure.

I think if you assess certain aspects, we are far ahead.

And if you assess others, we're far behind.

So certainly like raw manufacturing horsepower, we're way behind.

We're probably more behind than America has been since like the mid-1800s.

That said, if you assess on innovation, if you look at the technologies that define the world today, and then you look at America's work shaping the technologies that we'll likely define tomorrow, we are ahead.

And so it really, I think your confidence depends on which of those two things you think is important.

Absolutely.

And I want to be clear.

I think in two decades we are moving more atoms than China.

And I don't think you achieve that by making China move fewer atoms.

I deeply believe in innovation as the means of fixing America's manufacturing problem as well.

And so we're happy to talk about that.

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