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You need to figure why you support onshoring. The elites support it because they can see the writing on the wall for what might happen in a future conflict, not out of the goodness of their hearts or for some fantasy about labor economics. The "made in America" nonsense is bullshit sold to unions and rural areas decimated by outsourcing for the sake of votes. The consent is manufactured by dangling a carrot that will never materialize. The jobs are going to Mexico, they are not coming back. The feds want corporations to onshore for purely strategic reasons, and all the subsidies are to make automation possible to bring the costs down. The workers were never the priority.


Brutal but true. Mexico will replace China as a manufacturing hub at some point in the next decade.




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