So in summary, manufacturing is coming back but the jobs aren't? This trend was entirely predictable. Cheap human labor becomes expensive and unreliable at sca

So in summary, manufacturing is coming back but the jobs aren't? This trend was entirely predictable. Cheap human labor becomes expensive and unreliable at scale so it's only a stopgap until automation becomes affordable enough. Cutting delivery times and transportation costs helps shift the balance. Scandals and improving quality of life (i.e. workers become more expensive as labor laws improve, production becoming more expensive as environmental laws improve) also helped. It's the end goal for Uber, so why should labor-intensive factory jobs be any different? As soon as automation becomes more profitable than human labor the jobs will be gone.