People don’t miss manufacturing jobs, they miss high wages. We associate American manufacturing with high wages, so the idea that bringing back manufacturing would bring back high wages is a kind of cargo cult notion - but of course we all know that it was high unionization that drove high wages, high progressive taxes that built all the infrastructure in this fukken country, and high imperialism that made it all possible.
This exactly. What they want is the benefits of organized labor and central planning, but that’s communism, so they’re forced to focus on the jobs themselves. It’s really stupid when you think about it even a little.
People don’t miss manufacturing jobs, they miss high wages. We associate American manufacturing with high wages, so the idea that bringing back manufacturing would bring back high wages is a kind of cargo cult notion - but of course we all know that it was high unionization that drove high wages, high progressive taxes that built all the infrastructure in this fukken country, and high imperialism that made it all possible.
This exactly. What they want is the benefits of organized labor and central planning, but that’s communism, so they’re forced to focus on the jobs themselves. It’s really stupid when you think about it even a little.