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You can't fill many less-desirable jobs when more-desirable alternatives exist (more pay, easier conditions, or just welfare). You need to locate those jobs somewhere that MAKES them desirable.
Across India and China, a billion people have these options: (1) stay in a village and farm for survival-level income with no advancement, or (2) go to a factory for low-ish income and a chance of advancement: $2/hr hunched over an assembly line is a GOOD JOB.
In the US, no one will work minimum wage in unsafe conditions doing body-contorting manufacturing when they could get a "fake job", be a marketing intern, and make above minimum wage sitting at a desk. $2/hr hunched over an assembly line is a BAD JOB.
This touches on that and more. Is worth a read:
https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back
>Chinese manufacturing labor isn’t just cheaper. It’s better.
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>In China, there are no people who are too fat to work. The workers don’t storm off midshift, never to return to their job. You don’t have people who insist on being paid in cash so that they can keep their disability payments, while they do acrobatics on the factory floor that the non-disabled workers cannot do.
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>Chinese workers are much less likely to physically attack each other and their manager. They don’t take 30 minute bathroom breaks on company time. They don’t often quit because their out-of-state mother of their children discovered their new job and now receives 60% of their wages as child support. They don’t disappear because they’ve gone on meth benders. And they don’t fall asleep on a box midshift because their pay from yesterday got converted into pills.
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>Sadly, what I describe above are not theoretical situations. These are things that I have experienced or seen with my own eyes. It’s fixable, but the American workforce needs great improvement in order to compete with the world’s, even with tariffs.
