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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Okay, it can't be revived at wages that wouldn't put American factory workers below the poverty line.
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Exactly this. Generally speaking, we don't want to pay for what stuff is really worth. They can just ask Trump.... he buys his steel from China. There was a time and place to fight globalization, but that ship has sailed and we are in too deep now to simply push a re-set button.
The funny thing is that at one time, it was left fighting against corporations setting up factories and sweatshops in third word countries with terrible working conditions to minimize costs. People on the right defended it as capitalism and giving jobs to the poor (better for a 12 year old to work 16 hours a day at $1/hour than to not work at all!
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Now you have people on the right complaining that all the higher paying unskilled jobs are leaving the U.S. Well, you reap what you sow. It's become the standard now for every person or household to have a car or two, a computer, multiple phones, huge wardrobes, fruits and vegetables from all over the world and in all seasons, and hundreds of other cheap items. This is all thanks to globalization and moving jobs offshore. I doubt people would be willing to take the economic and technological hit required to go back before the late 1980s in order to get those jobs back. And I doubt Trump or anyone else can do it in 4-8 years.
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
There are few brutal hard labor jobs left as factories are now all automated.
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I wonder how many people lamenting the loss of those jobs realizes that they would pretty much need a university education to work as a plant nowadays.