> It’s completely unsurprising that American mid-skill workers are worse at cooperating on delicate large scale manufacturing than Japanese ones. Watch the 198

> It’s completely unsurprising that American mid-skill workers are worse at cooperating on delicate large scale manufacturing than Japanese ones. Watch the 1986 movie "Gung Ho" starring Michael Keaton, about a Japanese car company opening a fab in the US. It's amazingly witty and funny. The gist is that Japanese workers (and Asians in general) are expected to sacrifice their personal life for the good of the company with all the downsides that incurs for them, while American workers want to do the bare minimum at work and also expect to be paid significantly more than workers in Asia (duh!). In the globalized world of today (let alone the 1980's), manufacturing is a race to the bottom in terms of cost where you need to squeeze your labor as much as you can to keep costs down, and high income countries like the US, can't compete, nor do they want to because they have better options to pump up their GDP, like printing USD. So why do we keep discussing this over and over again? Working in factories competing with Asia kinda sucks for the 21 century wealthy westerner so they don't want to do it like in Asia, which is what it takes to keep prices low and consumers happy. So opening factories under these conditions seems like you're setting yourself for failure form the start.