[waynesa98]

So read the replies and not one put together all the reasons MFG is about to explode in the USA. MFG used to be labor and energy intensive. The robots now being deployed are removing the people from the MFG line. Unions are screwed, they have made sure they can not have a job. The new bots can thread a needle the first time every time. 3d printing is a major disruptive tech. Now here is the big deal, fracking. USA nat gas cost is about 1/7th of europe. Since energy is and will be even more of an important MFG input the USA’s energy advantage becomes huge.

And all of this has nothing to do with the eminent implosion of china’s economy.

[muawiyah]

Further mechanization, automation, computerization, robotics and improved work methods will almost guarantee that the United States becomes the world's lowest cost producer of everything it wishes to produce.

We will also have a great deal of difficulty with our unemployment rate ~ and will be looking back at today's functional 20% rate as being a Golden Age of workers!

We could probably become a nation of OWNERS ~ do that as an occupation.