The other danger here is the human resources side of the business. Lots of skilled labor just evaporating away — institutional knowledge that is hard to replace

The other danger here is the human resources side of the business. Lots of skilled labor just evaporating away — institutional knowledge that is hard to replace and even harder to document. The US needs to simultaneously invest in trade schools, stop pushing for higher education so zealously, and perhaps find ways to make our manufacturing workforce earn dignified wages. Addendum: American Factory (the Netflix documentary) tried to make the takeaway about the plight of the American worker and the decay of manufacturing and the seemingly inhumanity of Chinese manufacturing. What everyone should take away instead is the insane skill-gap on display between the two country’s assembly lines. Seriously, even without the inhumane hours, the Chinese factory still had the US factory beat on everything.