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Originally Posted by zuffa
Middle class is shrinking because manufacturing is shrinking. We "make" less and less. Hell even I'm guilty of it. Just look at manufacturing in California since 2001.
Here is the SE almost all of the textile business is gone.
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We've been moving to a post-manufacturing economy for quite some time. High-tech is where it's at. Unless we want to be a society of hairdressers, waiters and walmart cashiers, that is...
IMO what's needed is a huge re-investment in our primary and secondary education systems so that we have kids who are
really prepared to go to college and get the kinds of good engineering/tech etc jobs that often go unfilled these days.
If it weren't for the H-1B visa program, our high tech industry would be dead in the water. And as the economies in India, China etc join the modern world, a lot of those guys are going back home.