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Re:Typical U.S. full-time salary would be $102k if wages had... by chillacy on Sunday September 27, 2020 @12:42PM (#24607944)
If it wasn’t China it would have been Thailand or Brazil. If outsourcing never happened, automation would have brought us here anyways.

The forces that push manufacturing to find ways to lower the cost of production are relentless.

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Re:Typical U.S. full-time salary would be $102k if wages had... by AlexTWithBeard on Sunday September 27, 2020 @01:24PM (#24608308)
May be. Or may be not: both Thailand and Brazil have been there for a long time, yet it was China who picked the ball. A coincidence?

Full automation is very far away. But when it happens I'm afraid it will be Chinese workers building factories designed by Chinese engineers from Chinese steel.

This trend must be reverted.

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