US Manufacturing Decline

Absolutely.Manufacturers sent manufacturing jobs overseas thirty years ago, so few Americans learned manufacturing skills for thirty years, now manufacturers use the effect to justify the cause. But of course the real reason was simply that they didn't want to pay American wages.If manufacturers brought the jobs back Americans would learn the skills.

here is another article outlining loss of manufacturing to other countries.https://www.industryweek.com/leadership/article/22026136/hop...

The US service economy is ~83% of GDP. Manufacturing only makes up 8% of jobs in the US. Why do I care about US made products? Corporations are offshoring services and knowledge work, manufacturing has been gone for some time and will not be back. If it does come back, it'll be mostly automated, lights out facilities (like China).So! I think it makes a lot of sense to impair the offshoring of these service and knowledge jobs when there isn't a labor shortage and we're likely in

Mostly due to displaced manufacturing though no?

> hint: it's not manufacturing anymore in the USI highly doubt that is true. I mean, there are only 3 basic economics sectors, and you just stroke an entire one out of the question.It is way more likely that the reality is more nuanced, and the US can not efficiently manufacture some things, while keeping the lead on some other things.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41349653/ns/business-us_business...We still have a substantial manufacturing base, it's just that we've squeezed the jobs out of it by emphasizing high productivity and automation, while outsourcing the dirtiest work. The developing countries can enjoy more industrial jobs because their wages are lower, but the U.S. is already facing a "robot economy." We just haven't raised

The US manufactures more than ever, and the % of GDP in manufacturing has been flat for 70+ years now. The jobs didn’t leave, so they’re never coming back. They got automated. Just like we need vastly less farmers than in 1900 to farm more than ever, we need vastly manufacturing jobs to manufacture more than ever.

Not really.https://qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mistake-about-manufacturing-...

False, USA has a big problem with manufacturing. All US jobs are service jobs to prop up consumer economy, that have no strategic benefit.A lot of fake employment and low productivity jobs are in the government/NGO sector, paper pushers, DEI jobs, law/compliance type jobs - that should have been manufacturing jobs instead.USA has no shipyards and infrastructure is crumbling precisely because of misallocation of resources and labor

>> it sure looks like my country is trying to make things harder for China, and is paying the price of making things harder for workers in my own country.Not sure if you've noticed, but manufacturing is starting to come back in the US. Industrial automation and skilled trades jobs are starting to be a thing again. These are solid middle class jobs that often dont require a degree. Its coming at the expense of some pain in other areas, but it might be an overall positive.The pat