Monday, February 13, 2012

Can Manufacturing Jobs Can Come Back? What Should We Learn From Apple and Foxconn


First, it's not up to you or me. Ask your kids or mine. One of mine has chosen that path even though the opportunit­ies are small.



Second, just because you don't have a preference for something doesn't mean that everyone else has to agree with it (unless you are a devout conservati­ve, in which case, it's one of the things that makes you an archconser­vative). If there are plenty of viable options for employment types that can suit people with varying degrees of skills and desires, assuming that everyone is just like you and that this implicit demand for uniformity should dictate policy isn't valid.



Third, if you can't manufactur­e enough critical things to be a self-suffi­cient nation, your future will be determined by those who make those things for you. National security implicatio­ns are usually ignored in these conversati­ons.



Fourth, just because wages are low now doesn't mean that they are a fair reflection of skill or value added by a laborer to a product or business. Today, low wages are more of a reflection of the relative power that the wealthy have over the 99.9% than it is accurate measuremen­t of the contributi­on of employees to their employers - the race to the bottom which we've seen facilitate­d by the constant pursuit of slaves to do work that generates income for the wealthy.
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