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Free-trade is bad for those whose livelihoods are displaced with nothing to replace them with. Of course, free-trade is easy to blame, but the elephant in the r
by infinite8s 10y ago
Free-trade is bad for those whose livelihoods are displaced with nothing to replace them with. Of course, free-trade is easy to blame, but the elephant in the room is that even if manufacturing came back to the US, most of it would be done by robots.
- tdb7893 10y agoYeah, my impression is that the manufacturing will be automated, the pay of the job will be low, or the prices will increase in most situations. I guess it remains to be seen whether it is worth it but it seems to me that at the very least the transition will be painful.