Comment by bluGill
7 days ago
US manufacturing is better than it ever has been by all measures except number of people working in them. This means that there isn't much need for someone to get good at putting a nut on a bolt and other such mindless work that is skilled only in that with a lot of practice you can get really fast as doing it. People who don't want to spend a lot of years in school are thus not doing very well because there isn't much need for people who don't want to use their brain.
Not all measures: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-chart-shows-the-drama.... It may not have declined in absolute terms, but it still hasn't kept pace with the rest of the economy.