To: Yashcheritsiy
North Carolina’s textile industry came from Massachusetts because it was easier and cheaper to exist in the South than unionized Yankee land.
So, North Carolina lost the business for precisely the same reason as it got it in the first place
13 posted on
05/14/2016 6:41:36 AM PDT by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
To: bert
And that’s why a combination of tariffs and CGT cuts can bring it back.
Point remains - it didn’t disappear because of “robots.”
14 posted on
05/14/2016 6:42:36 AM PDT by
Yashcheritsiy
(You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
To: bert
North Carolinas textile industry came from Massachusetts because it was easier and cheaper to exist in the South than unionized Yankee land.
So, North Carolina lost the business for precisely the same reason as it got it in the first place.Indeed, but the money earned at those jobs was, for the most part, spent in America, not oveseas. Also the technical skills to maintain machinery stayed here as well.
40 posted on
05/14/2016 1:14:25 PM PDT by
Oatka
(Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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