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Everyone is rightly focused on his "low wage foreigners" comment but I'm infuriated by the "we're going to restore dignity to the working class by bringing back manufacturing." NO YOU WON'T. MASS HIGH WAGE FACTORY EMPLOYMENT FOR NON-COLLEGE EDUCATED WORKERS IS NOT COMING BACK. YOU KNOW THIS.

Modern factories do not lucratively employ half the men in the town straight out of high school to work an assembly line on union contracts. That was a weird blip in the 1950's when automation hadn't taken off yet and the US was the only country in the world whose factories weren't blown to shit.

I enjoyed this. If it’s not manufacturing, what are the alternatives? Care? Energy/Infrastructure? Services? Perhaps they aren’t as palatable as the perception of a factory job?

It's almost certainly services (which include everything you listed). Manufacturing + Farms employ like 9-11% of Americans and that number is not likely to go up. Most people do and will work in services and that's... not a bad thing just because we've gendered ourselves into thinking it is.

A better solution would be to plough money into churning out more knowledge workers, but donors would not be happy.

Just services generally, but we've decided that's all too Gen-Z Boss and a Mini coded and so we must yearn for some mines.

Caring professions are also just too girly.

As an engineer at a Caterpillar plant I talked to a couple, husband and wife, both forklift operators. Cat had replaced about half of the forklifts with robots, but remaining still required humans. Yet they all got laid off, lost their union jobs, only to be promptly hired back as workers for a...

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