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In reply to the discussion: FiveThirtyEight: Manufacturing Jobs Are NEVER Coming Back. [View all]Yavin4
(35,490 posts)98. Here's another point. No one would pay the increased prices for American made only products.
That iPhone would be $15,000 instead of $500 to cover the cost of paying American workers a middle class wage to assemble.
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That is why all the big companies ate their competition and now are one massive company.
Rex
Mar 2016
#37
And the only actual answer is for the profits that do exist to be distributed
Jackie Wilson Said
Mar 2016
#126
If Congress functioned it might be better, hard to say since they refuse to follow their own laws.
Rex
Mar 2016
#138
We need to stop sentimentalizing manufacturing jobs; there's nothing magical about them
Recursion
Mar 2016
#2
good point, and of course another slant on the need for higher minimum wage
phantom power
Mar 2016
#17
That will make little difference when most of the work is done by machines nt
anigbrowl
Mar 2016
#106
And before the 1930s they didn't pay that. That was a social and political outcome
Recursion
Mar 2016
#91
I would imagine that a BMI would actually create enough economic stability...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#120
And it didn't happen anyway because iron prices are too low for it to turn a profit.
Zynx
Mar 2016
#34
Bernie Is The Only Antidote To Rampant DNC DWS DLC HRC Third-Way Corporatist Corruption
cantbeserious
Mar 2016
#26
Following WWII I've read, part of the Allied terms and Marshall Plan was to make sure
appalachiablue
Mar 2016
#87
I thought I heard something about robots replacing fast food workers at some point.
Vinca
Mar 2016
#41
There are self-service ordering kiosks at some fast food restaurants. I've seen them at McD's,
4lbs
Mar 2016
#58
They have bots now that will prepare your order, fresh on the spot. They only thing preventing
Purveyor
Mar 2016
#76
It will be interesting to see how they handle custom orders. For example, at Burger King, you can
4lbs
Mar 2016
#90
If a job can be automated, it will be. Service industries are already under asaualt.
Agnosticsherbet
Mar 2016
#42
Or perhaps it's time to get past the idea of "work" in general and have a guaranteed minimum income
Spider Jerusalem
Mar 2016
#67
The US (2%), Canada (18%) and Italy (3%) gained manufacturing jobs from 1991-2000.
pampango
Mar 2016
#47
Thanks. AND only 2 countries trade less than the US - Sudan and the Central African Republic.
pampango
Mar 2016
#89
Make it more expensive to chug a product over the largest ocean on the planet and they will.
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2016
#50
Bernie talks about rebuilding our aging crumbling infrastructure and a massive environmental
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2016
#51
But it is an example of how US corporate expansion doesn't necessarily mean a tidal wave of new jobs
4lbs
Mar 2016
#56
We love workers & jobs. Must be progressive & realistic and avoid being doctrinaire
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2016
#60
If we want to get the jobs back we need to act more like a Third World country.
jalan48
Mar 2016
#63
They are not coming back to Germany, Sweden or Canada. I doubt they will go Third World
pampango
Mar 2016
#66
The only thing preventing a computer from taking my job is computers still suck at natural...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#73
Mine's customer service, and at this time, people are surprised I'm not a computer...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#115
That's great! My coworkers and I have watched videos of the inverted pendulum
cheapdate
Mar 2016
#95
Here's another point. No one would pay the increased prices for American made only products.
Yavin4
Mar 2016
#98
Any JOB in the USA (or the WORLD, for that matter) should pay a LIVING WAGE. eom
Hiraeth
Mar 2016
#99
"We'd better re-think what it means to 'work'; get GMI, retrain, embrace change, blah blah blah"
HughBeaumont
Mar 2016
#110
Why not, people have the right to know the truth, so we can work on solutions...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#113
He did acknowledge their frustration and need for solutions in the full article, i stand corrected
LettuceSea
Mar 2016
#114
That's the reason why there are rumblings of talk about Universal Basic Income....
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#117
That is the biggest obstacle, that's why its best to talk about solutions now...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#122
Less workers should mean less labor cost and the product cheaper for consumer. But, have
B Calm
Mar 2016
#121
A car is cheaper after inflation now than in 1975. What does "keeping pace" mean?
Recursion
Mar 2016
#141
Nope. The $33,560 includes light trucks (ie, SUVs), which weren't a category in 1975
Recursion
Mar 2016
#143