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Also ourselves into the stone age. We now have two solid generations of Americans who have never worked in a factory or done precise labor before. Including one generation that's almost exclusively Mestizo hybrid and have extreme difficulty learning complicated tasks.
This isn't getting into the fact that almost all unionized labor is now a thing of the past because Paco and Jamal can do it out of their van for pennies with no accreditation and no one stops them.
It would be impossible, functionally, to create a manufacturing sector remotely viable in America anymore. All of the pillars that made it possible were knocked down and sold for scrap.