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Originally posted by sycamore
A lot of the manufacturing jobs are being sent out of this country.
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"Are being sent out of this country?" My friend, you're about 20 years late on that one. See all those abandoned factory buildings in North Philly? Count most of those as ones where the jobs were sent first down to the American south, and then overseas, in each case because labor costs were much lower in the new location.
The argument is frequently made that unions drove the manufacturers out of the US by raising the cost of doing business too high via higher wages. And the argument has merit. This, however, does not make the entire concept of moving jobs out of the US, decimating neighborhoods and whole cities in the process, any less reprehensible.
Simplistic, yes, and inevitable in a capialist framework,
Z