Q:Curt: “Would you agree that de-industrialization (outsourcing manufacturing) c

–Q:Curt: “Would you agree that de-industrialization (outsourcing manufacturing) creates a sort of a gap between low-skill and high-skill (abstract) work, forcing everyone not interested or capable of the latter to work in the former, reducing their prospects for development and earnings?”–

Well of course. I would also add that the rapid increase in administrative jobs made possible by the advent of desktop computers will have been the equivalent of the postwar increase and collapse of manufacturing.
So while men were rendered unemployed by outsource of manufacturing women are going to be rendered unemployed by outsource of clerical work to AI.
But the real reason (somehow lost in time) is that unions drove manufacturing offshore. And the conservatives advanced it because of the alliance between unions and the democrat (communist) party.
Now, it’s the conservatives who have taken in labor as a means of repatriating industry now that unions are decimated, and the democratic (communist) party is disavowed.
Why? Responsibility. Right = Responsibility, Left = Irresponsibility.

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