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Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/manufacturing-jobs-are-never-coming-back/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ma

• dmead 5y ago
  they aren't making tube socks.
  • WillPostForFood 5y ago
    If you want tube socks manufactured in the US it can be done the same way. Not saying it is good economics, but if the government wants tube sock manufacturing jobs in the US it is trivial to make it happen. If you say "never" or "can't" your are lying, and you really mean you don't want it to happen.
• dodobirdlord 5y ago
  What is the meaning of this comment? Are you highlighting the article title because you think that it’s incorrect in the context of this fab being built? Fabs like this are automated to the greatest extent possible, and the remaining jobs are mostly high-skill. The article makes this point directly. > Here’s the problem: Whether or not those manufacturing jobs could have been saved, they aren’t coming back, at least not most of them. How do we know? Because in recent years, factories have been coming back, but the jobs haven’t. Because of rising wages in China, the need for shorter supply chains and other factors, a small but growing group of companies are shifting production back to the U.S. But the factories they build here are heavily automated, employing a small fraction of the workers they would have a generation ago.
• selimthegrim 5y ago
  Wasn't American Factory set in Dayton?