Buggy whips are useless items because of technological changes and their impact on the labor market. It is those same technological changes -- as pointed out in the column -- that have driven most of the decline in manufacturing jobs, just like technology has driven the vast reduction in agricultural jobs. When technological advances in machinery allow one worker to produce what it took ten to produce a few years ago, that means that nine fewer workers are needed for that job.
So why are factories being SHUT down? The exact same products are made overseas by people doing the exact same thing Americans used to do. If you believe this globalist BS propaganda then you are really gullible.