Not calling your experience into question at all. But you’d have a hard time convincing the HUNDREDS of Freeport Macmoran copper miners who have recently found themselves out of work due to dropping copper prices as “good”.
Still you have a point that there is still a segment that suffers. Rather than blaming business cycles, and the businesses themsselves I think you will find that the more culpable culprit is the largess of federal and state regulatory requirements which kill businesses ability to compete on a global scale.
Fix that, and then we can deal with China flooding cheap metals into our country.