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We all have to thank China for that. We no longer have entry-level jobs paying $75k. But we have cheap bulbs. Good deal, heh?
by AlexTWithBeard 6y ago
We all have to thank China for that. We no longer have entry-level jobs paying $75k. But we have cheap bulbs.
Good deal, heh?
- chillacy 6y agoIf it wasn’t China it would have been Thailand or Brazil. If outsourcing never happened, automation would have brought us here anyways. The forces that push manufacturing to find ways to lower the cost of production are relentless.
- AlexTWithBeard 6y agoMay be. Or may be not: both Thailand and Brazil have been there for a long time, yet it was China who picked the ball. A coincidence? Full automation is very far away. But when it happens I'm afraid it will be Chinese workers building factories designed by Chinese engineers from Chinese steel. This trend must be reverted.
- jfengel 6y agoIf it were just the movement of manufacturing, then the entire country would be poorer. TFA is about the fact that the wealthy people have grown much wealthier, and that requires additional explanation. Overseas manufacturing is part of it, but the US still makes tons of money, often in industries other than manufacturing. Some of them do have entry-level jobs in the $75k range, but rarely with just a high school education. Programming is one of those fields, and realistically, we ought to figure out how to do more with the self-taught developers, sans a $200,000 degree. That won't solve all of the problem -- far from it -- but it's indicative.