We go out of our way to buy products that are made in the USA. But many labor-intensive products are simply too costly to make here at prices most people are willing to pay. For example, it is still possible to buy a nice, all-cotton, double-stitched dress shirt that is made here, but it will cost $100 or more. The same-quality shirt made in Sri Lanka will cost about $60.
The story is very different in technologically advanced, capital-intensive industries. We manufacture millions of US-, Japanese-, Korean- and German-branded autos here in the USA each year. I urge you to take a tour of one of those plants. I think you will be surprised by how quiet, clean, and automated those facilities are. The number of worker hours required to build a car (parts plus assembly) has decreased by more than 40% in the past 25 years. The employment “losses” in the domestic automobile industry (and in many other US industries similarly benefiting from increased labor productivity) have nothing to do with offshoring.
Ahh yes "for example". So Free Traitors™ take an outlier, shirt production which is one of the most labor intensive made, and use it as an example to illustrate what? A disingenuous argument against protectionism. Really? F that.
The truth is most manufactured goods are not labor intensive as a making shirts which are still hand sown for the most part. What a bunch of disingenuous weasel < expletive deleted > Free Traitors™ really are.
Do you know how many man-hours on average it takes to make a passenger car? I do, but you probably don’t.