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I hope this trend is real and will continue. Manufacturing is so important to a country. It creates jobs. It builds talent. It stimulates innovation. It improve

I hope this trend is real and will continue. Manufacturing is so important to a country. It creates jobs. It builds talent. It stimulates innovation. It improves the lives of millions of people. It keeps a country's defense strong and sustainable. Without a robust and comprehensive manufacturing sector, I don't know how the US can proper in the future. I pains me to see that BYD could produce millions of masks in days in spotless and fully automated factories, while GM workers labored at those manual machines that looked like the scraps from the Soviet Union. Oh, and the $20K toilet? The $200M+ fighter jets? The inability to manufacture the screen of Kindle even if we want to? The list goes on, and I truly want to see the current-day version of the US manufacturing of the roaring ages: cheap, innovative, best workers in the world, full domestic supply chain, and etc.

JoeAltmaier 3y ago
All true ... 50 years ago. Today factories in the US are built automated. No jobs, not for anybody but an accountant, an administrator, a couple of engineers.
- g9yuayon 3y ago
  Maybe fewer jobs per square feet, but it's the natural evolution of manufacturing. What matters is we need engineers and workers on the floor so we can innovate and develop more senior talent.
  - JoeAltmaier 3y ago
    And to hell with those not rated 'senior talent' I guess.
    - g9yuayon 3y ago
      Why? More jobs are still more jobs, no? In addition, each factories may hire fewer people than 50 years ago, but I hope we have a lot more factories. Having more skillful talent does not contradict my hoping that more Americans will have chance to get a decent job.
      - JoeAltmaier 3y ago
        It's just so immaterial to US job health. We have around the same factory employment today as in 1945. Despite growing population by more than 2X. 13M mostly non-skilled. Maybe 5%
  - JoeAltmaier 3y ago
    We need a percent of the workers we remember being in a factory. Not enough to even count factory jobs as a significant sector of our economy.
- fooker 3y ago
  >Today factories in the US are built automated. Could I please borrow your time machine?

JoeAltmaier 3y ago

All true ... 50 years ago. Today factories in the US are built automated. No jobs, not for anybody but an accountant, an administrator, a couple of engineers.

g9yuayon 3y ago
Maybe fewer jobs per square feet, but it's the natural evolution of manufacturing. What matters is we need engineers and workers on the floor so we can innovate and develop more senior talent.
- JoeAltmaier 3y ago
  And to hell with those not rated 'senior talent' I guess.
  - g9yuayon 3y ago
    Why? More jobs are still more jobs, no? In addition, each factories may hire fewer people than 50 years ago, but I hope we have a lot more factories. Having more skillful talent does not contradict my hoping that more Americans will have chance to get a decent job.
    - JoeAltmaier 3y ago
      It's just so immaterial to US job health. We have around the same factory employment today as in 1945. Despite growing population by more than 2X. 13M mostly non-skilled. Maybe 5%
- JoeAltmaier 3y ago
  We need a percent of the workers we remember being in a factory. Not enough to even count factory jobs as a significant sector of our economy.
fooker 3y ago
>Today factories in the US are built automated. Could I please borrow your time machine?