Gimme a break. Compare China's centralized economy's solar/wind/nuclear production to the entirety of the west's decentralized, privatized economy. not even close.
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The argument was always that the labor and regulations cost too much but the labor abuse and pollution are costing us more.
The same party that wants to move manufacturing back to the US also wants to deregulate as much as possible, roll back labor rights and repeal environmental laws. The cost of moving manufacturing out of China and to the US is that the few Americans who can get work in a mostly AI driven and automated industry will eventually get treated and paid like Chinese labor.
Sure, they want to roll back all those protections but we don't have to. And more to the point, why doesn't the US party that champions labor rights and environmental regulations want to move manufacturing back to the US? It's very easy to say you support factory worker rights when you don't have any factory workers.
But we're going to. You know that's the deal.
>And more to the point, why doesn't the US party that champions labor rights and environmental regulations want to move manufacturing back to the US?
Both parties are strongly pro-business and pro-manufacturing[0], and the Democrats did campaign on reshoring just because it's a no-brainer, but they seem more focused on preserving labor rights and a living wage than do Republicans.
[0]https://www.americanmanufacturing.org/blog/what-does-the-off...
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/10/17/163074704/manu...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/manufacturing-jobs-are-...
Democrats just recently changed their stance based on Trump's win, which is great if it helps the avg. worker.
We need to figure out how to structure our economy to benefit everyone:
>And manufacturing in particular embodies something that seems to be disappearing in today’s economy: jobs with decent pay and benefits available to workers without a college degree. The average factory worker earns more than $25 an hour before overtime; the typical retail worker makes less than $18 an hour.
It's fun to look back at these articles talking about how retail is taking off....now all the big boxes are dying, we replaced storefronts with a few warehouses.
Sure, the amount of labor going into making something has shrunk but so has the amount of labor required to sell something. Honestly, it's not just going to be just an AI driven and automated manufacturing industry. Healthcare, education and everything else seems to be falling into the same dark spiral.