Re:The Decline of the U.S. Machine-Tool Industry and Prospec...
by SideQuark on Friday April 11, 2025 @09:26PM
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Decent paying manufacturing jobs are never returning; they’re automated out now.
It’s like wishing all of America would return to farming jobs, which once employed the majority of people. Then farming got automated such that now only a few percent of workers produce vastly more than those ancient hordes.
That’s where manufacturing went, and the rest of the world is as surely automating out those jobs too.
It’s like wishing all of America would return to farming jobs, which once employed the majority of people. Then farming got automated such that now only a few percent of workers produce vastly more than those ancient hordes.
That’s where manufacturing went, and the rest of the world is as surely automating out those jobs too.