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> you don't have to be a union activist to recognize that exporting american manufacturing jobs has been disastrous for our domestic working class You do thoug
by surement 4y ago
> you don't have to be a union activist to recognize that exporting american manufacturing jobs has been disastrous for our domestic working class
You do though. The reality is that "exporting" these jobs means cheaper products for everyone, and no one in what you call the "working class" wants these jobs to be in the US if it means they need to pay more for everything.
The US consistently manufactures more every year despite hiring fewer manufacturing workers because improved automation competes with US labor at lower costs.
- rasz 4y ago>no one in what you call the "working class" wants these jobs to be in the US you might be a little disconnected from reality >if it means they need to pay more for everything. yes, now they can pay a little less from their wage.. oh wait, they got fired
- surement 4y ago> you might be a little disconnected from reality you might be projecting > yes, now they can pay a little less from their wage.. oh wait, they got fired nah, there are plenty of "working class" people who are working
- nyolfen 4y ago> and no one in what you call the "working class" wants these jobs to be in the US if it means they need to pay more for everything. look at a graph of productivity measures since 1990, a graph of real wages, and a graph of US GINI scores. i'm a knowledge economy worker like most people here, but we have been on a course of serious class warfare and economic cannibalism for decades. but thank you for letting us know that everybody actually wants it this way.