>if the manufacture and operations management of automation solutions also could not be outsourced, wouldn't that at least bring more jobs to the market? I bel

>if the manufacture and operations management of automation solutions also could not be outsourced, wouldn't that at least bring more jobs to the market? I believe these are the jobs people talk about when they talk about "high tech manufacturing". To do manufacturing in rich countries it needs to be efficient, which means skilled jobs. The problem is for people who don't have the skills and want their old unskilled manufacturing jobs back.