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We've spend the last fifty years shipping every job and industry overseas. What did we expect to happen?

• epistasis 4mo ago
  That is absolutely not the case in any way. The US is the most vibrant and productive economy in the world, the envy of every other country. China is literally trying to climb the economic ladder up to the type of hugely productive, high paying jobs that the US is. And somehow the US got tricked into thinking that the low paying, less productive manufacturing jobs are what we should be climbing down to.
  • laughing_man 4mo ago
    It's true in some very important ways. Manufacturing employment is something like 15% of what it was fifty years ago. We only do manufacturing for things that require a lot of technology and a sophisticated skill set. But not everyone in society is cut out to manufacture integrated circuits. It used to be that a person on the left half of the IQ bell curve could go out and get a job making brooms, or plumbing fixtures, or toys, or any number of things that are only manufactured in China now.
    • watwut 4mo ago
      USA had low unemployemnt prior Trump ... and still has. You can worry about manufacturing in the national security sense, but it is not missing in jobs.
      • laughing_man 4mo ago
        Sure. Because people who can't find jobs go on disability. That's why we have record low labor force participation rate.