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I don't know why we want so hard to bring these jobs back (the same way we always try to keep the metallurgic industry in Europe). These jobs are becoming obso
by Longwelwind 10y ago
I don't know why we want so hard to bring these jobs back (the same way we always try to keep the metallurgic industry in Europe).
These jobs are becoming obsolete, and delocalizing to countries with lower labor costs is only a step before factories become fully automated (and some companies are reshoring because robots are becoming cheaper than outshore workers). The workers here that are left with no job and no marketable skills should be manifesting for an UMI instead of asking to politics & companies to keep the factories here.
- Alphasite_ 10y agoBecause you want to be the one holding the factories when the end game hits.
- Teever 10y agoThis seems to be the thing that everyone is missing in this conversation. I agree with you but I've been wondering for a while if it's not a bad idea for the west to pass the tedious stuff off to China to use their labour to build our own automated factory. It seems risky though.
- riprowan 10y ago> I don't know why we want so hard to bring these jobs back (the same way we always try to keep the metallurgic industry in Europe). Because countries that cannot source their own weaponry become the pawns of those who can.
- ddebernardy 10y agoTo keep the design expertise in-house. Or as aptly put in this piece: > He had subsequently watched its commercial aircraft business outsource itself to death. A key problem was that designers became so out of touch that they no longer understood basic manufacturing realities. http://www.fingleton.net/boeing-goes-to-pieces/ http://www.fingleton.net/boeing-goes-to-pieces/