> It will be automated with a fifth or less required to setup and maintain. It is genuinely a hard problem. Even 50 years ago or so, simply having two hands an

> It will be automated with a fifth or less required to setup and maintain. It is genuinely a hard problem. Even 50 years ago or so, simply having two hands and reasonable health was a gateway to a decent-paying job. These jobs have kind of evaporated, and aren't going back. That's a bit part of the nostalgia for manufacturing, I would imagine. In an ideal world, you would ramp up free education, churn out more skilled labour. But for many reasons, this isn't happening and isn't likely to happen soon. So what should societies do with all this "unskilled surplus labour"? UK has sort of given up, and since 1970s whole regions of England rely heavily on continued social transfers. I.e. the bankers and the oil rigs pay for the budget, the budget pays for former miners. But that's increasingly unsustainable, not to mention massively unattractive to everyone involved. US seems to (maybe?) follow a note darwinian approach. But this is, it seems, also not working. Bringing back manufacturing, as you say, won't fix it either. It feels like there is a whole class of people without access to good jobs or education to reskill. Other than spending a lot of money on this, like Switzerland, I don't really know how to fix it, it is genuinely a hard problem in a liberal country. Would be keen to hear suggestions.