OSHA, EPA, etc (not all regs, but many are nonsense)
It only takes a couple of engineers to design a plant and there is only about one maintenance worker for every 20 - 30 production workers. How does that replace the workforce?
It takes more and better engineers to design the automated equipment. It takes better maintenance workers to maintain the equipment. It takes service jobs to support the engineers and maintenance workers. Do you understand how a cascading economy works?
Frankly, if your job is to pick up a nut and put it onto a bolt, you are a drag on our economy.
Nice sentiment to your fellow Americans.
I think my fellow American can achieve more than putting a nut onto a bolt. I want my fellow American to perform tasks that are not the equivalent of a screw-machine.
Are you being facetious? I am the only electrical maintenance worker on my shift. There are over 75 production workers on the floor. There is only one mechanic at the same time. How does that figure into your equation?
Take Harris graphics, a press manufacturer. They probably have 50 engineers designing presses. Yet they manufacture about 500 a year. How can you possibly say there are more service worker than production workers?
By cascading, do you mean up?