Then stop producing mass market stuff and start producing high quality, individualistic "artisan" stuff!
I have a feeling a these companies had a lot of deadwood middle management.
America pioneered the mass production revolution and we will pioneer the move to customized semi-massed production via internet marketing.
That's just what we need...
an industrial infrastructure based on the philosophy of a 1960s hippie commune...
I can see it now...
high-quality, handcrafted tie-die T-shirts, leather sandals, belt buckles, candles, pipes & bongs...
Kumbaya! It's a small, small world!
"This is like deja vu all over again."
~ Yogi Berra
Now, now. Willie doesn't like it when you contradict his doom-and-gloom postings with good, common sense. You're supposed to rail at unfair foreign competition, and cheer for mass transit.
ah yes, another dreamer prediction about the jobs being outsourced eventually being replaced totally by automation.
just like agriculural harvesting - why isn't it done totally by machine? well, because the availability of low cost labor from mexico means that no one would invest to develop the technology to automate it - it doesn't pay since the labor works for so little. that's the other problem with offshoring, it destroys the normal business cycles for investment in automation, the ultra cheap labor makes it un-economical for any company to take the risk to invest in new technology - why bother, when there is some chinese guy chained to a milling machine cranking out furniture for $2 a day.