Sorry, you are in denial. My wife works for a very small manufacturing company and they cycle through temps looking for employable people. The last one was sent away because his vacant staring AT A RUNNING LATHE alerted them to his drug impairment. This is a pattern they see; workers unsuitable to the tasks they need to perform.
A couple of years ago a friend of mine was put on a job that was about a month behind schedule and approaching $100 million cost overrun.
First day there he noticed almost an hour after work was supposed to start no one was working because the welders hadn’t shown up.
All the welders had decided they were so important they could come in to work anywhere from 45 min to an hour or more late.
He let the welders know if they didn’t show up for work on time he would assume they had quit.
Next day all the welders decided they were going to show him who was boss and they all showed up an hour late.
None got in the gate.
Within about 2 days my buddy had about 50 new welders on the job and each understood you show up late you just quit.
The new welders were getting more done in one week than the old welders were getting done in 2 weeks.
Maybe had never seen a machine before
I think part of the problem is financial. The job doesn’t pay enough an hour, and the government benefits are too high.
That double whammy means smart people—who are fewer and fewer today—seek better paying jobs, middle intelligence people go on welfare while scamming an easy to scam system, and the drugged and dumb seek manufacturing or broom pushing work.
Meanwhile, illegals work their tails off in agriculture, construction and service jobs, and further squeeze the stupid into crappy jobs.