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10. So Undercutting is OK If Americans Are Doing It To Each Other?

Mon Dec 2, 2024, 04:30 AM

Dec 2

Sorry, but I lived Billy Joel's Allentown (though I wasn't working at the time). The line "they threw and American flag in our face" is very poignant in my mind.

I'm almost old enough to remember 10k+ steel workers in the valley (and other places). Truth be told, automation probably eliminated more than half those types of jobs. Reshored manufacturing is only going to provide a small blip on the employment scale; they'll be less jobs (paying much lower wages because they're less skilled) than there were when they existed in the US decades ago.

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