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Originally Posted by skarra
Seriously though (attached graphic), why do we want low paying and now largely automated manufacturing jobs when we do services so well and have a surplus in that respect with nearly every nation? China owns cheap manufacturing now - we need to get over it.
The services industry includes Banking/finance, High Tech, Accounting, Tourism, etc. Isn't that what young people want?
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Not all young people have the math skills to be accountants. or high tech. But, they could do maintenance jobs (with some training) on robotic and AI manufacturing factories. That way we would be paying our own PATRIOTIC citizens while NOT paying China, which we are in competition with militarily. When we buy Chinese made goods we are also paying for their air force and space force operations. Also, the skills that US young adults learn in a US factory maintenance company could be transferred to the US Military in the case of a WAR. If we made an effort as a Country to emphasize SOME non-College jobs, we could strengthen the vanishing middle class and TRULY make America STRONGER. It would help, also, if we changed the tax brackets to help the middle class re-GROW itself.