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No Sympathy, No Charity's avatar

The thing is American manufacturing hasn’t gone anywhere. Our manufacturing output is higher now than it has EVER been. The jobs weren’t lost to other countries, they were lost to automation.

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R Mercer's avatar

What we actually manufacture has also changed.

And automation is about to extend to non-manufacturing jobs, through AI.

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No Sympathy, No Charity's avatar

Okay, maybe. But again claiming that jobs went off shore is simply not true.

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R Mercer's avatar

LKet me then rephrase nd say that the US jobs were eliminated in favor of cheaper alternatives.

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