I disagree (strongly) with your claim.
Manufacturing is the basis for real wealth.
That we have sent ours away, does not bode well for the future of America.
Time to bring back US manufacturing.
Now.
AMEN!
Benjamin Franklin argued that HIGH WAGES and CHEAP LAND were keys t US success
Not every American is Bill Gates or Howard Hughes
“Manufacturing is the basis for real wealth”
Don’t forget Energy and Food production.
Over the last 40 years we outsourced our Energy production despite being the energy richest country in the world.
I’m hopeful that the new fracking technology is going to make the US the largest energy producer in the world in a few years. This is a battle we need to win.