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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
The object of manufacturing goods, whither they be intermediary component parts or finished products, should be delegated to the most cost efficient and reliable quality producers. Who wants to buy a USA made tablet for $900?
If the USA is interested in life quality advancement and occupational advancement: The people with the education and experience that leads to low skill-set manufacturing work are obsoleted by lower cost and more efficient global workers. We need free occupational education to qualify people, younger students as well as re-trainable adult workers, for contemporary post-industrial society's new jobs. There will always be work in the building trades, capital goods maintenance and repair -- and sweeping floors and waiting tables, fast food and lower paying retail trades. So, if that is all your education will allow you to do -- you made your choices now live with them.
A college degree in general bullshit will qualify its recipient to end up in waste-case soylent green future. On the other hand, someone with a contemporary, and relevant, occupational education, for example; as a transport mechanic or a computer coder will always have a decent paying job -- that is a post-industrial world education.
In a post-industrial society you do not need assembly line workers or lathe operators like we needed in 1950. Those jobs still exist but in Asia delegated to the most cost-efficient lower paid workers. If you want work in those occupations move to China compete with the workers there -- they have your skill-set ... But their reward is an extra fish head in their rice bowl ...
Sorry, I don't want the tax of a $900 tablet when I can get one for $100 to $300 made in China. This sort of thing is a hidden tax -- pay more for goods to employ domestic workers who for all purposes are overpaid and government-policy-subsidized with a low skill set.
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I agree fully with spending money to train more people in the science industries. To work in Silicon Valley for instance. Building cars will increasingly be done by machines. We need to be paying students to study how to build and improve these machines.
Still with China now in the Space race, building planes for Boeing and Aerospace, Drugs, chemicals, banking, and anything else they decide to turn their hand to. What jobs, do you expect will be there for 30 million people in the US alone?
Waiting tables won't work if there aren't enough rich people to eat out. Nor will selling webcam be so profitable with fewer people with enough disposable cash to spend. And many of the jobs you think people can be retrained for. House building requires a lot of people with a very high salary to buy the houses.
Look at the trends and see where they're going. You may end up without enough money to buy a $300 tablet if you don't have enough customers in the US to buy private chats.