Sorry - wrong answer. The machines were mostly moved to China because of climate policy (and lower wages, and despite QE credit being easier in China) (TLDR: w

Sorry - wrong answer. The machines were mostly moved to China because of climate policy (and lower wages, and despite QE credit being easier in China) (TLDR: we moved all factories to be coal powered regions (~20x more polluting than oil, ~2e12 times more polluting than nuclear), because our nuclear and oil powered power plants were too polluting). So this argument might have worked 10 years ago, but today too much of the economy has nothing to do with machines (other than laptops running excel spreadsheets). Try again ?