Posted on 05/10/2025 11:37:13 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Offshoring is also true for most of the US textile / clothing industry and many other larger US manufacturers. Nike was just following the general trend.
US government doing the bidding of the oligarchs and big corporations that see the cheap labor not only went along with it, they created policies which no kidding incentivized (there were tax benefits in some cases from what I remember) in offshoring for many years.
In the modern urban US, the “middle class” was created in the factories.
When the shift began towards offshoring, we really set the stage for what we have today, the working poor in low paying service sector jobs and extreme rich business owners or super high skilled technical folks. Amazon is the perfect example.
The only remnants of a middle class can be found in the trades (HVAC or electrician...), but many of the jobs that created the once large / predominant middle class moved to China, Taiwan, South Korea or Mexico.
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