Why American manufacturing is becoming less efficient::undefined
Greedy manufacturing oligarchs outsourced jobs, paid their employees the least amount possible, and now they’re wondering why their businesses aren’t as competitive. Hmmm…
Why American manufacturing is becoming less efficient
Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
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alienanimals@lemmy.world 11 months ago
there1snospoon@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
Anyway we can get a free version of the article? This interests me
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Gift link: econ.st/3QVFQbk
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Kbobabob@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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tsonfeir@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s cheaper elsewhere. People can throw down all the hypotheses they want, but there is always a single reason: money 
tomatobeard@lemm.ee 11 months ago
tomatobeard@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Spoilers!
industrial productivity growth has slowed across the rich world, even if not by as much as in America (see chart 2). The extra bit of American underperformance is trickier to explain. Economists throw out a boatload of hypotheses. America is known to have laxer antitrust enforcement than its peers; perhaps scrutiny was especially needed in the manufacturing sector. Maybe American manufacturing was more advanced when robots arrived on the scene, so had less to gain. Some have even argued that because America’s software and internet sectors have been so lucrative, talent has been diverted away from older industries.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Some have even argued that because America’s software and internet sectors have been so lucrative, talent has been diverted away from older industries.
It’s not just that software and internet has been so lucrative, it’s also that there are fringe benefits of being a white collar software worker versus a blue collar factory worker. The biggest is absolutely that the blue collar work will fucking ruin your body over time. All my blue collar friends have a plethora of health problems related to doing manual labor their whole lives. Injuries that will never really heal and leave them in chronic pain until they die. None of my white collar working friends in the software sector have any health problems similar to that which were triggered by their job. A few of them have some serious health issues, but nothing caused by the work they did.
Millennials and Gen Z are some of the most educated generations in history, and we’re surprised they’ve recognized this and made the choice to not suffer physically in their old age?
just_another_person@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’d wager it’s a combo of all of those things, plus we’ve just lost the innovations that come with running that of wider sector since so many things are done in other countries now. Manufacturing jobs in the US are also considered blue collar, and blue collar is not looked at as an enviable job.
curiousPJ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Please just say the quiet part loudly. Wages in manufacturing are disproportionately lower than other jobs with much less skill required. McDonalds/Costco in California are paying more than Tool&die machinists in a large aerospace company.