> Their children’s children didn't bother to learn the STEM and Craft skills required to work at scale. I mean it's less nobody learned and more the demand was

> Their children’s children didn't bother to learn the STEM and Craft skills required to work at scale. I mean it's less nobody learned and more the demand was gone. American companies sent manufacturing overseas because back then, it was cheaper, and America is unique among nations in that we can just print money^1 to buy things. The only manufacturing that's still solidly American is products that are too fragile/large for sea shipping at scale (we make a lot of cars in North America, but a lot of that's gone to Canada and Mexico) and anything related to the defense industry. And even then, those companies (like Boeing) are now being eaten from the inside by the same business parasites that ate everything else. These problems all have solutions but we have to stop giving private businesses a free pass to do anything and everything to starve the government of tax revenue while stripmining the citizenry for every penny they can. 1: Not without risks and problems, but still, no other country on Earth can do this.