The percent of people involved in manufacturing employment has been declining, globally, for decades. Fighting over manufacturing jobs is an exercise in rearranging chairs on a sinking ship. But people have a kind of romantic/nostalgic attitude toward manufacturing jobs and think they are the only way for a nation to have a healthy middle class so governments will keep wasting time and money over creating policies on behalf of a small group of well connected constituents.
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You know it would have been nice for the media to spam these articles before election
The ones who need to hear this the most are far too deep in the “this will totally revive American manufacturing” line of thinking
working class be like:
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The percent of people involved in manufacturing employment has been declining, globally, for decades. Fighting over manufacturing jobs is an exercise in rearranging chairs on a sinking ship. But people have a kind of romantic/nostalgic attitude toward manufacturing jobs and think they are the only way for a nation to have a healthy middle class so governments will keep wasting time and money over creating policies on behalf of a small group of well connected constituents.
It’s like the Jones Act, but for everything!