Originally posted by mike brown
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I see your anecdotal appeal to emotion story that clearly has hidden the actual problems and I raise you the facts of the overall American Farming outlook and income:
https://www.fb.org/market-intel/usdas-early-look-at-2019-farm-income
Year over year, farming is up $6.3 billion.
"Reshoring" is up and manufacturing is up:
https://www.industryweek.com/economy/reshoring-rise-what-it-means-trade-debate
But manufacturing is up for different reasons. The US tops the chart for manufacturing production because of increased investments in automation and computer sciences:
US is also gaining greater shares of the market total, as well.
Primary takeaway: digital technologies in the manufacturing industry are improving the US's position in the world economy:
So let's bring this back around: we should not seek to replace displaced blue collar workers. We should continue to do what we are doing and simply automated the utter living shit out of everything with the world's best minds. While we are at it, continue to gain market share and increase our output WHILE reshoring our manufacturing. 🙂
This was a very long roundabout discussion where I asked you questions to lead you down the path of the facts. The facts of reality for what was already happening. If you played along, honestly, instead of trying to take jabs at Trump, you would have made the conclusion on your own and I wouldn't have said much. It would have been your idea, you would have found the facts, and you would be better for it.
We don't need 15,000 Foxconn blue collar Chinese assembly-line workers. We need a few industrial precision robots that can do 5x the work that 15,000 people can while doing so at much lower costs. Humans cannot compete with these economies of scale or robotic precision and speed. The trick is to reshore the work due to the reshoring market entry.