>We're doing 2.5x the manufacturing with 40% fewer employees. This is very misleading. The reason is because we largely only choose to keep the factories alive

>We're doing 2.5x the manufacturing with 40% fewer employees. This is very misleading. The reason is because we largely only choose to keep the factories alive that we can almost fully automate. The goods that don't lend themselves to cheap, low maintenance automation are imported. This makes the most economic sense from a business owner's perspective. Free trade from sweat shops that have little or no regulations (environmental or other) or labor laws... yeah that is easy to compete with.