There is an ironic factoid I’ll share.
About two years ago I went to witness the machines being exported to Bangladesh. They were a 9 year old fully automatic Japanese system for converting bales of cotton to T shirt yarn. Raw cotton in one door, spools of yarn out the other.
There were very few employees required to operate the fully automatic, pretty much state of the art machinery.
Hard times are coming to Bangladesh........ the equipment from th North Carolina plant will put some Bangladeshi’s out of work.
Indeed you are describing the real problem coming....the fact that there aren’t going to be enough unskilled jobs to go around, due to technology.
Ironic indeed....those textile jobs probably left NC at some point in the first place....now NC has better jobs replacing them. This is why you cannot ever plan an economy. No way to know what is coming down the pike...unless you plan....which means protect status quo....which means nothing better ever comes down the pike.