Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved to Mexico.

The New York Times ^ | 14 Oct 2017 | Farah Stockman

[central_va]

No it isn't. We all benefit from lower prices and the higher standard of living lower prices make possible.

There is no evidence of that even though you FEEL that way about it. I'm sure Goebbels believed some of his own propaganda.

You are Free Traitor™. I do not see how you voted for Trump. If you actually did then you are hypocrite to your globalist religion. Unfortunately, we economic nationalists find ourselves stuck in the same party as people I feel are no better than dog sh!t. Hopefully Bannon can rid our Party of globalist Free Traitors™ and they can be side lined politically-forever. You deserve no political representation and have had your way long enough.

[daniel1212]

A comment from the page to add to your:

John S. Bay Area, California 1 day ago

This should be required reading for every American — Democrat and Republican alike — not only as a wake-up call but as a key to understanding how globalization is breaking the backbone of our workforce.

In explaining away the loss of manufacturing jobs, we too often assume that workers can get a college degree and then reintegrate into the new economy. But this article tells the wrenching truth: We have abandoned those for whom the dignity of work in a factory is part of their identity. We reference the social safety net and plans to provide free college to re-educate the displaced, overlooking the human dynamic. We trivialize the education that blue-collar workers get through their years learning a trade, something that even the best so-called vocational schools can’t match with a diploma.

We have devalued the importance of people who understand how machines work, what goes into their production, and the art of making and maintaining them. We think we’ll make robots that will replace people on an assembly line or save them from the drudgery of performing the same task over and over, forgetting that human beings have brains that can perceive imperfections and take pride in correcting those imperfections. With our blind faith in faceless technology, in computer programs and models, we discount the human component of manufacturing.

Offshoring jobs to lower-paid workers is not the answer. We need to instill a respect for the work of human hands and the lives behind them. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/us/union-jobs-mexico-rexnord.html?&target=comments&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&modref=HPCommentsRefer&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news#commentsContainer

[Theoria]

'To be blunt, this woman and her cohorts are consistently treated as an alien species by the bicoastal urban elite that has assumed the mantle of authority in the Democrat party.'

Sure. But this is a bipartisan feature. Buchanan and Perot were the only sirens warning of free trade, globalization and outsourcing prior to this election as a whole. Trump won on such points. But, the main party handmaidens have not switched their positions.

If ya want to laugh or cry look back at Perots charts from 92. National debt, Nafta, etc. Things have only gotten worse. And when the gop were in charge they failed to handle such problems. These problems, unless fixed soon will ruin US.

[SeeSharp]

No it isn't. We all benefit from lower prices and the higher standard of living lower prices make possible.

There is no evidence of that even though you FEEL that way about it.

Huh?...
There is no evidence of lower prices?
or...
There is no evidence lower prices cause a higher standard of living?
or...
There is it that there is no evidence that a higher standard of living benefits us?

I'm sure Goebbels believed some of his own propaganda.

So... you're out of arguments then?

[Theoria]

Do you honestly think she makes 50-75 hr? She makes around 25. Like lots of folk, she stared as a janitor and worked her way up. I hope it works out for her and rest of the people in the story.

[Billthedrill]

But, the main party handmaidens have not switched their positions.

That is absolutely correct. It's maddening, because these people weren't all born with a silver spoon cycling from the public trough into their capacious gobs. They should know better. The main character in this story can look at them and say, "I make ball bearings. I'm damn good at it. I make the best ball bearings in the world." And that life has less dignity than a ivy-league-degreed policy wonk's? I don't think so.

I've worked in big companies and small, and one commonality was a rather saccharine insistence that "our people are our number one asset" that in the successful firms was actually taken seriously but in the less successful ones met only lip service. Outsourcing was not kind to the latter.

Trump won on this issue not only because he is correct about it but because he was the only one even addressing it. He won the working class vote because he was the only one even trying. His party's handmaidens gave us a carefully groomed Yeb! Bush with his $75 guacamole bowls and figured that was authenticity enough. You are so very right about that.

[central_va]

No, you are out of economic gloBULList religious beliefs.

BTW when is Ford going to announce price reductions the Focus now that Pedro makes them for $3.00/hr in Mexico?

[SeeSharp]

No, you are out of economic gloBULList religious beliefs.

Economics.

BTW when is Ford going to announce price reductions the Focus now that Pedro makes them for $3.00/hr in Mexico?

A better question is what is the difference in price between the cars Ford makes in Mexico vs. the cars Ford makes in the US.

[daniel1212]

I hate to tell you, but the robots do a better job than the humans. They’re more sure, they work faster, they don’t take off for being sick, they get things right 100% of the time. I should know. My technician job is being automated piece by piece. I’m only 40 and the median age is 55 and getting higher every year. By the time I retire, there will be no one to replace me and no need to replace me; machines will do my job with no intervention by humans. That’s a good thing. My “replacement” will be an Ivy dude monitoring computers in an office, not some dirty joe-jobber like me.

While robots can surpass humans in certain job applications, often where the system is designed around them, in such an environment as described in the article which much relied on personal intimate knowledge of an old system, some of which was not even written, and was designed for human hands, it would take $ubstantial retooling in order to replace all the jobs.

The sheer variety of bearings, which numbered in the thousands, made it difficult for the trainees to learn them all. Instructions were in English. And not every step had been written down.

Over the years, workers had been forced to make adjustments. “That’s in people’s little notebooks, and in their heads,” said Jim Swain, Shannon’s former supervisor.