The future of manufacturing
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"Do you think America would be better off with more <any sort of> jobs" would probably get an 80% "yes" rate. It's a loaded question, though. If you have to interfere with the market through protectionism in order to create those jobs, I doubt people would find it so obvious that those jobs are a good goal.
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“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factoryIt's quite noteworthy that 25% of Americans think they will better off working "in a factory" while only 2% of American currently do. I think it shows that there is a significant portion of the population who aspires to "working in factory".
I doubt you'll get as positive a response if you replace "factory" with "farm" or "sanitation" or "inns and hotels" or "restaurants," etc.
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@taiwan_girl said in The future of manufacturing:
The graphic, made by the Financial Times and based on a 2024 survey from the Cato Institute, shows that while 80% of Americans believe the country would be better off with more manufacturing jobs, just 25% believe they would individually be better off working in a factory.
They present it as a contradiction, but it’s not. The fact that 25% of Americans think they would be better off working in manufacturing is actually quite telling, especially when only 2% are actually employed as such.
Now, that doesn’t mean that those 25% SHOULD be working in a factory or would actually be in a better position, but it does disprove the theory posted here that nobody wants to work in a factory.
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@kluurs , I think I’ve seen this person’s videos before … one of those China perma-bull who is always positive on China. Not saying what he says is wrong, just skeptical that the guy may be shilling for China’s interests. That sort of “China good, China better” videos, many with Caucasian Westerners narrating on camera, are fairly common on YouTube (and many are repackaged from TikTok). Not saying they present falsehood (I haven’t invested the time to investigate), just that the way these things show up makes me suspect that there may be state organized propaganda efforts.
