Manufacturing has been dwindling for decades as a result of deliberate policy choices to offshore. So it's not as if this is a new thing. Without factory work,

Manufacturing has been dwindling for decades as a result of deliberate policy choices to offshore. So it's not as if this is a new thing. Without factory work, non-professional men have been shunted into precarious low-quality driving and general logistics - Uber, Deliveroo, other parcel couriers, warehouse logistics. Most of those don't require physical strength, so the premise that Diploma Man wants a job with heavy lifting to feel manly is bizarre.