millenials vs. factories

[skippercollector]

In the past decade, I have read a number of times about two contradictory situations.
1. We need to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. The US needs to be in the business of "making stuff" again.
2. Millennials don't like "stuff." They want to live in one-room apartments or houses, with cheap disposable furniture, have all their meals at restaurants (so they don't even need eating and cooking utensils), and move to a new city every few years.
How can these two life outlooks be reconciled?
This is not a Republican/Democrat, conservative/liberal, haves/have-nots question. It's more of a career question.

[xajj4791]

1. I still do not think...

That we should try to force manufacturing jobs to return to America, that ship has sailed imho. Train the work force for the jobs we need not the ones we want to bring back. Tradeskills > all and are the backbone of our unions. The job outlook for healthcare and technical jobs has not changed much in the last 20 years, we need a lot and are understaffed.

Millennials like stuff just fine, they just dont have gobs of money to buy stuff because wages are stagnant, benefits are weak and there are not too many jobs you can retire from anymore leading to loyalty. Build strong unions, employee the millenials with good paying jobs and watch how much they buy.