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On 5/4/2025 1:18 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Sun, 04 May 2025 09:01:56 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> which is shocking.
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/02/american-reindustrialization-manufacturing
> 
> I would normally hit the 'next' button when someone links to a
> Guardian article, but as you say, they're right for once with this
> one. Lots of countries in the West were sold the same lie about
> swapping manufacturing for services. Mrs Thatcher told the British
> that the old 'smoke stack' industries would have to go abroad and be
> replaced by smart services. Those peasants in the Far East, they were
> told, would take over all the shitty, manual jobs whilst the British
> would get cracking with the clever stuff like manufacturing silicon
> chips. Problem was, the peasants in China and Taiwan didn't get the
> memo. The British lost a huge amount of manufacturing alright, but the
> service economy which replaced it was - for the most part - low paid
> and low skill. Some economists who could see the issues with this said
> at the time: "we can't as a country make a living from shining each
> other's shoes" - and that's the prediction which *should* have been
> listened to.

It wasn't the right in the US rioting at the WTO conference in Seattle 
in '99.

The right didn't care. Stocks were up, dot com boom was in full swing, 
and so long as the cops were beating down some  "hippies" it was fine, 
ship all the jobs to China, we have a White House blowjob to focus on..