America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back

Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by phendrenad2 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @09:41AM (#43705440)

Everyone wants more manufacturing in the US, but nobody wants to be a factory worker. People would rather starve or go homeless than work in a factory. Until Americans overcome their pride, this is going to make building manufacturing in the US very difficult.

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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by carlosjobim on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @10:16AM (#43705871)

Everybody wants to be a factory worker if the compensation is good. Why do you think Chinese people work in factories? Because it pays better than other jobs they can find.

"But if factory wages are good then products will be expensive"

No, because the wages for the factory worker is less than 1% of a products shelf price.

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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by BatmanAoD on Thursday April 17, 2025 @09:12AM (#43716306)

If 20% of people really think they'd be better off as factory workers, that's actually kind of a lot. Can you imagine if 20% of the working population really did work in factories? That's an enormous number.

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