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Re:Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with do... by babesh on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:22PM (#25584368)
The problem seems to be that there was a loss of focus on high end manufacturing in the US. Germany and northern Italy are the counter examples but even those countries were not immune to globalization.

Also, it may be that globalization is coming for them next but that they are higher up the hierarchy.

There seems to be a reawakening towards manufacturing in the US with electric cars and rockets. It’s not just Tesla and SpaceX. It’s Rivian, Rocket Lab, Virgin Galactic, etc... I hope it strengthens.

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Re:Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with do... by xxpor on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:17PM (#25586851)
The US has always done high end manufacturing. The difference from the 70s is that it requires a lot fewer humans. Manufacturing output in the US is up ~75% from 1998-2017:

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/manu...

Yet employment is down ~4 million people in the same period:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP

Edit: Here's a FRED blog post talking about the same thing: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2014/12/manufacturing-is-gro...

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Re:Chinese airline completes maiden passenger flight with do... by robohoe on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:39PM (#25584551)
I hope Rivian thrives. Downstate IL (where their factory is) is struggling and needs the manufacturing jobs to come bac.
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