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Originally Posted by Minte
You see how,..what?
We can compete with China in most areas of manufacturing. Automation in the US is exactly as effiecient as it is in all of Asia. It's true,that the amount of true manufacturing positions has decreased due to technology. But there are still a large majority of small businesses that eith can't afford it, or don't actually need it.
What has to happen is that at some point the consumer has to realize that they need to shop somewhere besides Walmart.
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The only way to compete with China on manufacturing on a large scale is to be able to compete with their cheap labor. You made a mistake in your post.. you have it reversed.
In the past the key advantage the US had was "WE" were more efficient than the 3rd world labor forces making higher labor cost more worthwhile. Now thanks to ease of transportation & a global economy, the third world (yes I look at China as 3rd world) has caught up to us because it's easy enough to take high tech & build high production manufacturing to their cheaper labor pool.
Out side of niche products that it simply isn't worthwhile to build overseas we can not compete due to their lower costs of labor.
We will never see iPhones or Levi's Jeans made in the US because as a society we have progressed passed a manufacturing based economy and the global market just wont let it happen unless the average American is making 10 times less than current poverty levels.