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lenerdenator ◴[] No.43693034[source]
America?

No.

The shareholder class underestimates it.

A lot of Americans realize that it's going to be hard, which is why we should have made an example out of the first guy to profit off of sending manufacturing off to the shores of a geopolitical rival.

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knowaveragejoe ◴[] No.43693134[source]
Americans also have more free time and disposable income because of that decision, among others. Why would you want them to struggle more?
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lenerdenator ◴[] No.43693206[source]
The people in the areas where things used to be made certainly have more free time, but they don't have disposable income.

Unless we're just here to repeat canards from the 1990s given by financiers which explained why it was good to shut down the main employers for entire towns.

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1. pjc50 ◴[] No.43693291[source]
US unemployment rate floats along at about 4%, and is kept from going any lower to prevent inflation.

There are localized problems - and it's all very similar to the post-Thatcher UK - but you cannot be serious in imagining that employment would magically return to the exact spots it left. In fact that's one of the sub-problems OP talks about: so you want a US Shenzen. Where are you going to put it?

(UK equivalent: we're discussing keeping Scunthorpe blast furnaces open, so that we can have a "secure" supply of "domestic" steel .. made entirely from imported ingredients. Because the mines the plant was built to refine are empty)