Re:Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her, Then Her Job Moved ...
by icebraining on Saturday October 14, 2017 @02:41PM
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In no way did I say or imply it is.
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Re:Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her, Then Her Job Moved ...
by mistermann on Sunday October 15, 2017 @11:09AM
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"In no way"? The US doesn't need to reindustrialize because its industry is bigger than ever, exports are strong, etc?
How is that meaningfully different than GDP being high? They all completely ignore wealth distribution.
Re:Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her, Then Her Job Moved ...
by icebraining on Sunday October 15, 2017 @03:57PM
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Apparently my writing was terrible, since two people misunderstood my point, for which I apologize, although I still struggle to say how else I could have written it.
My points are that you can't re-industrialized if you never de-industrialized, and also that any employment gains from "pulling back" some industries (using tariffs or similar) would be short lived for the same reason that the current US industry is shrinking employment despite continuing to grow. Like the videos I posted show, there's a big difference between the number of employees you hire when you have to pay them 1x or just 1/16x. I'd be surprise if most "recovered" jobs lasted a decade.