If the West is serious about friendshoring, many more will need to carry out manual work — albeit aided by robots. And yes, that means university graduates.
So after 8 decades of psychological warfare to get manufacturing and fabrication moved to nations that used to have lucrative slavery, we’ve decided (because of a dry, boring “national security” issue) to bring back these factories…
so… $2 an hour? Honestly, we’d rather make it $2 a day, but… yeah… maybe we can make it $2 a day, if payment of rent is included into the salery? We can’t trust China, but we sort of want to recreate the conditions.
So after 8 decades of psychological warfare to get manufacturing and fabrication moved to nations that used to have lucrative slavery, we’ve decided (because of a dry, boring “national security” issue) to bring back these factories…
so… $2 an hour? Honestly, we’d rather make it $2 a day, but… yeah… maybe we can make it $2 a day, if payment of rent is included into the salery? We can’t trust China, but we sort of want to recreate the conditions.