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Feels like Milton from Office Space: I was told there would be a manufacturing boom.
by jimt1234 1y ago
Feels like Milton from Office Space: I was told there would be a manufacturing boom.
- bluGill 1y agoThere might have been. Labor in manufacturing is way down - a trend going back to the 1950s. However manufacturing in the US has been booming all along. What used to take 2000 people in manufacturing now takes less than 200.
- deadfoxygrandpa 1y agothats not true. in most manufacturing industries we produce fewer units than we did 20 or 30 years ago, and in most of those industries the total value produced has been pretty flat. this is something a lot of economists have known about all along. you can read about it here: https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/10/03/how-gdp-hides-industrial-decline/ https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/10/03/how-gdp-hides-indust...