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Comment by SideQuark

14 days ago

> yes manufacturing going overseas was a huge change and many administrations didn’t do enough to help affected workers

Manufacturing didn’t go overseas - it got automated. The US is still the world’s 2nd largest manufacturer, the share of GDP going to manufacturing has been flat since 1950, and so on.

What happened is automation made manufacturing need vastly fewer workers. Nothing is “being jobs back” from a fairy tale reason.