They shoulda gone into brain surgery, right?
The American worker is by far the worlds most productive. Japanese workers may work longer workdays, but Americans work smarter work days. As a result, international bidding on American man-hours has soared and the overwhelming economic pressure has lured millions of US workers out of their US factories and put them to work showing other countries how to run their factories.
IMHO this constant sarcasm panning the advancing American worker is not only wrong, it's simply mindless America-bashing.
Probably not. However, rather than working in textiles, they might now be working in a BMW plant or a plant making computer chips.
What's a better product for a country to be manufacturing- Nike t-shirts or advanced microchips?