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Originally Posted by CaptainNJ
that would mean that the guy who wants to bring manufacturing back to the US was correct (which i dont agree with). its my understanding that china does the manufacturing because they have a ton of low wage labor. i dont think that is really something that we want to expand, low wage labor. he would probably be better served focusing on reducing other costs and challenges that make it undesirable to manufacture in the country. then maybe we could increase the amount of automated manufacturing with less low wage earners.
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I don’t view them as the same thing.
But yes it’s the wages. We can’t have it both ways. We can forgo being able to afford much of what we easily purchase today....or we can agree to take minimum wages back to the 70’s. I don’t know anyone that wants either of those things. So, China.