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Originally Posted by andywire
Many of those jobs that you speak of are simply not needed anywhere anymore. Technology has replaced many of the jobs from even 10 years ago. When one machine can do the work that it used to take 100 people to do, your going to see a big impact, much like we have.
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The net loss of jobs, bith manual labor and technology jobs is still far more than what is being brought back to the USA.
Maybe 1,000 people were employed in the US at a production factory. the jobs went overseas. Now the US company brings back production but only needs 200 (manual labor and skilled technology) people due to automation. But the factory in China that manufactures those automated machines employs over 500 workers. As companies downsize to meet automation, the number of workers in china needed to build those machines goes up. So china is still gaining employees while the US is still loosing employees. Not to mention that many of the small manual asemebled parts for the product arn't being made int he US they are made overseas and shipped to the US so these automated machines (using fewer employees) can assemeble them.
You also have to ask if the company bringing jobs back are really bringing jobs back. One manufacture of amaerican branded goods did bring jobs back but at the same time, they shipped their entire financial sector overseas. So the original 600 US jobs became 500 asian jobs and when technolgy improved int he US they brought back the production jobs but now only needed 200 but shipped their 300 employee financial arm overseas. So instead of counting how many jobs were created, count how many net jobs were lost.
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