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Re:Why China won’t own next-generation manufacturing by learc83 on Sunday August 28, 2016 @08:58PM (#12379344)
>Detroit become the largest city ever to file for bankruptcy in 2013,

Detroit filing for bankruptcy has more to do with car manufacturing moving to southern, union free states and Mexico than it does with Japan.

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Re:Why China won’t own next-generation manufacturing by mSparks on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @01:32PM (#12392088)
funny how americans blame the labour unions for the destruction of their car manufacturing. when the country and companies that forced that destruction have

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_Japan

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Re:Why China won’t own next-generation manufacturing by learc83 on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @02:45PM (#12400492)
It's quite simple. Detroit was built on manufacturing jobs. Those jobs went to southern states and Mexico. They didn't go to Japan.

The reason they went south is that labor was cheaper there because those states are unfriendly to unions.

I'm not blaming anyone, I'm pretty pro union myself, but that's what happened. You can argue until you're blue in the face, but it's a fact that the manufacturing jobs left Detroit for southern states and Mexico, not Japan.

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