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The way to create the jobs needed in the US, is to take them away from someone else. The real problem is that technology (communication, transport, accessibili
by necro 17y ago
The way to create the jobs needed in the US, is to take them away from someone else. The real problem is that technology (communication, transport, accessibility of buyers) has leveled the playing field for billions of foreign workers to compete in the US market.
This means that if your job is to assemble widgets by hand, you better be ready to have the same kind of pay and living conditions and income as a billion foreign workers. That was the past, but now we keep arming the foreign countries with progressively higher level jobs by shipping the howto there. Years ago you would get your product electronics assembled in a box offshore. Now, you not only have the electronics made there, but also the ICs, and even much of the basic design work is done offshore.
So if this guy has a start up that creates a competitive technological vector away from the foreign countries' abilities, it's most positively the RIGHT way to create jobs.
Do not count on the large companies doing this. Their way of creating efficiency and reducing economic drag is to ship the jobs off shore so their stock holders are happy (most of which are probably foreign anyways so they dont give a rats what effect this has in the long run).
The more technology and the progressively higher ability jobs you ship offshore, the higher and smarter jobs you need to have left in country.
It's simple...if a few billion people offshore can do the same job as you, and there is absolutely no transportation or communication barriers to have that job done offshore vs. in the US, guess what...it's done by the person that does it for less. If those jobs are assemblers, designers, engineers, you pretty fast run out of things all the American folks can do that others can't.
- lionhearted 17y ago> The way to create the jobs needed in the US, is to take them away from someone else. The way to create jobs is to get people producing things that other people need and want and are willing to exchange things for. This could be through lower pricing or better quality in an existing industry, or it could be through creating a new industry. As long as any human needs or wants are unfulfilled, there's a possibility for a new jobs to created filling those needs and wants.
- bsaunder 17y agoThat's it, bring back manufacturing by creating higher quality products than the Chinese. Surely most of those jobs would be higher level support to robotic assembly lines. But the Chinese have set a wonderfully low bar for quality. Furthermore higher quality products are "green". I'm fed up with purchasing crappy products. I want a store that charges 50% more but guarantees purchases for life (kind of an anti-walmart (except for the profit part ;)).
- fleitz 17y agoYou do realize that China is also losing manufacturing jobs as well right? Most manufacturing jobs are lost to robots not China.