• Hismama@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Maybe if wages actually rose with productivity, Americans could actually afford goods made within the United States.

    • MisanthropiCynic@lemm.ee
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      6 days ago

      It’s not even about wages. The precision tooling and engineering equipment would probably take a decade of development to get the US equivalent with China. We just don’t have it here.

      And it’s not about rising wages with productivity. Americans by and large don’t want to work in factories or manufacturing. The pay would have to be astronomical to fill the needed positions.