We don't live in a "Laverne and Shirley" world anymore, where "blue collar" types hang out on an assembly line for 7.45 hours a day (minus breaks) stamping bottle caps on bottles or hammering a widget into place as the product moves down the conveyor belts. Then they go home at night with an empty lunchpail where they sit in their chairs all "Archie Bunker" style while their spouse runs to the kitchen to get them a beer.
That America doesn't exist any more and never will again.
Knowledge or service workers are what is needed now and there are huge opportunities in both areas. All manufacturing has been outsourced so that they can be made more cheaply, without unions being in the way, and Americans can continue purchasing luxury items on more or less fixed wages.
Yet industrial production for manufacturing is nearing an all time high:
The productivity of American manufacturing cannot be underestimated. My company manufactures almost 100% in the US (we run foundries) yet our automation and LEAN efforts have reduced the number of workers required to produce the volumes.
You mean a prosperous America where are man on one salary could support a family and retire comfortably?
It's been destroyed by Free Traitors who sold us out to Red China and other Globalist slave plantations.
Knowledge or service workers are what is needed now
I've been hearing that line of BS for over twenty years.
Americans can continue purchasing luxury items on more or less fixed wages.
What? I suppose they are going to buy luxury items with credit cards and unemployemnt checks.