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I mean… if we want to not be reliant on other countries that we tend to piss off or can be as flippant as us… then yeah… we should start diversifying. It would also be good to have more low barrier to entry jobs. Granted I also think humans should be paid enough to live, and I doubt that would be the case here, but that’s a different discussion. That doesn’t mean I should leave my job as a teacher to go work in the manufacturing plants personally. I can think we need something as a country without having to be the person who does it, or even benefits from it.
Also… do we think we need 100% of the country to do one specific job for it to be important? Like I don’t wanna be a fucking janitor but we need someone to clean up shit. I don’t wanna be a doctor but like… I mean hopefully SOMEONE does…
Like, I don’t think manufacturing is coming here, but not because ONLY 20% of America would do that job. That’s… still so many fucking people dude.
It's because those 20% are kidding themselves. There are still plenty of jobs in manufacturing, it's just that they are third-shift grinds for the first couple of years before you can move towards a first or second shift position, more and more of it is done by robots which means it can be extremely monotonous, you have to move to more rural (usually about 20 minutes away from a major city) areas in the Midwest or South, and the pay isn't anywhere close to what it was even in the 90's.