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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1.  American design typically sucks.  Our cars suck, clothing suck, food sucks.  Compared to elsewhere designs anyway.

Also we're moving toward AI. Why does it make sense to return to skilled labor in general?  Now making a violin or a specialization that requires an apprenticeship is different.  We could def use more plumbers,  preKs, teachers, police and tutors but you know why nobody wants those jobs so why in the helm you'd want to make clothes?! Hell we could even use more doctors but it's too hard for a lot of people.

If people are worried about AI taking jobs I'd think the last thing they want is manufacturing oriented jobs.  Get some robots in that assembly line!

It doesn't make sense to me to go back but better to progress.  The issue is that American society culturally isn't in a place where we can progress given our education systems and a slew of other infrastructure and domestic issues. 
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This is on point.  We will never have cheap enough labor to make mass manufacturing of items Americans consume now affordable.  Even with tariffs you if you slap extra 30% on top of cheap goods produced overseas it will still be cheaper than equivalent American made goods.  Right now people buy American made clothes (which are very few) and overpay because of scarcity and morality bonus. You buy American made when cheaper choices exist because you want to help our workers and support domestic manufacturing.  There isn't much else like superior quality, because it's rarely the case.  Usually it's handmade artisanal products where American made can still dominate because it makes sense.  I can see some domestic brand name products making sense because people who pay for brands are ok overpaying for the actual quality and utility of the goods.  I don't see mass produced items we buy on the cheap now getting produced domestically even if they start costing more. 
 
It's hardly a unique opinion that if we want to compete with foreign labor practices and keep mass produced goods as affordable as now we are going to need robots.  I don't really disapprove of this because robotics manufacturing will provide better paying jobs, force our education system to evolve to higher standards and stop the brain drain. [/quote]

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