Jobs Will Return When Most Workers Work For Mexican, Chinese Or 3rd World Wages.

[TheMastersNemesis]

The brutal truth is the GOP and corporations support driving wages and benefits down to the same rate as the global economy. This fraud is the fraud that BEGAN WITH REAGAN for God's sake. The GOP has been playing the same tune since 1981 in various forms and workers have been voting for such economics ever since.

"Trickle (tinkle) down economics is now being reinforced by Trump and his rich allies. How do you think we ended up with so many billionaires who now want to control everything. IT IS OUR NEW ARISTOCRACY.

And Trump voters are it s biggest supporters. The only reason that rural voters support the GOP is that they have been convinced that Democrats are turning the country over to Asians, Mexicans, Blacks And Arabs.

[cloudbase]

1. A quote from Stanley Mihelick,

former VP for Goodyerar:

“Until we get real wage levels down much closer to those of the Brazils and Koreas, we cannot pass along productivity gains to workers’ wages and still be competitive.”

[ghostsinthemachine]

2. Ding a fucking ling......

As long as profit is the sole responsibility of corporations, they won't, cannot in fact, bring jobs back unless their major expenditure (labor) comes in line with current costs. Jobs ain't coming back. BTW, Mexico is the same as all the others.

[TheFrenchRazor]

3. that is certainly the goal of the 1%, but the rest of shouldn't just accept it. nt

[pansypoo53219]

4. pfft. who needs unions. of course CONGRESS made it easy & PROFITABLE to go overseas.

isn't ayn rand AWESOME?!?

[mythology]

5. Except for the fact that most manufacturing jobs have been lost to automation not offshoring

https://www.recode.net/2017/5/26/15656120/manufacturing-jobs-automation-ai-us-increase-robot-sales-reshoring-offshoring

"Even though now both human jobs and robotic manufacturing are on the rise, in the end machines do take away jobs from humans. For every robot brought into the U.S. workforce between 1990 and 2007, six human jobs were lost, the National Bureau of Economic Research found in a study released earlier this year."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-stealing-factory-jobs-blame-automation-instead/

"America has lost more than seven million factory jobs since manufacturing employment peaked in 1979. Yet American factory production, minus raw materials and some other costs, more than doubled over the same span to $1.91 trillion last year, according to the Commerce Department, which uses 2009 dollars to adjust for inflation. That’s a notch below the record set on the eve of the Great Recession in 2007. And it makes U.S. manufacturers No. 2 in the world behind China."

Answering the question of what to do as automation can replace more and more of our existing jobs is a significant question that nobody is really talking about. Not every person can just retool and switch fields, even if automation will likely offer some similar benefits that previous technology has done via things like tractors, or looms or trains that allowed more work to be done by fewer people.