“Well, Sonny, I remember when we actually used to MAKE stuff around here. But they moved the making part, so now we are just supposed to BUY stuff.”
Recently spotted news items, as well as personal experience, makes me worry for the USA. All we do now is wage-slave for financial companies, and all our tech is off-shore.
I wonder if our plumbers and electricians are also finding everything they need is “Made in China”??
Getting a little annoying, isn’t it?
Sure, these are even nominally ‘American’ companies, right? Well, they have offices in some American city, perhaps.
Truth is, what they want us to do is buy stuff, and for work I guess we can just clean toilets or something, rather than actually make something because we won’t work for starvation wages, or in sweatshops. BTW, I consider office cubes as the new sweatshop.
We are all wage slaves, except those in trades. Is anything made here anymore? Clothing, shoes, pots & pans.