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Nemo: 

re: "the notion that we’re somehow going to see explosive manufacturing growth over the next four or eight years is nothing more than a pipe dream."

Probably correct, but not necessarily. As "Zeng" alludes, robots could make even the Chinese laborers seem pricey. If we automate our factories, the job market in America won't grow directly but manufacturing could still flourish.

When manufacturing thrives, service jobs eventually do too. Someone has to maintain those robots... and maintain the robot maintainers. So we could have indirect job growth.

But in four to eight years? Naw. I don't think that's realistic.
 




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A Chinese Factory Slave Explains Why Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back To America
By: capt_nemo
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Tue, 02 May 17 12:31 PM
Msg. 24860 of 47202

While we all loved President Trump’s campaign pledge to bring jobs back to America, there are powerful economic forces at work that suggest the shift to cheap labor is pretty much irreversible. Yes, Trump has spoken with the leaders of some of America’s biggest companies and he’s been successful at getting those chief executives to commit to creating or keeping a few thousands jobs here and there, but when you consider that the competing foreign labor force primarily responsible for manufacturing America’s consumer goods numbers in the hundreds of millions of people, the notion that we’re somehow going to see explosive manufacturing growth over the next four or eight years is nothing more than a pipe dream.

But don’t take it from us. A Chinese factory worker explains exactly why we have absolutely no way to compete with the near slave-like conditions found in


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-01/chinese-factory-slave-explains-why-manufacturing-jobs-are-never-coming-back-america


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