Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back

[Johnny2X2X]

3. I would argue that we don't really want them back

The idea we're ever going to get factory jobs back that have pensions, wages above $30 an hour, with great healthcare, and other benefits is silly. The manufacturing that exists now is low paying and few people want to do it. Few people want to do hard labor for $15 an hour with almost no benefits. They're trying to bring jobs back that literally don't exist anymore.

You were always going to need an education and/or skills to be in the middle class going forward. We've been telling people that for 50 years now.

The limited number of manufacturing jobs we would want back are higher skilled ones, like the ones Joe Biden brought back with his CHIPS act.

This romanticized idea that we're ever going to go back to a time when small town folks will be able to graduate high school and head down to the stamping plant or steel mill to work next to their parents and uncles for 40 years is silly now.