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Originally Posted by HansTWN
That sounds good, Brecklundin. However, I have seen it in every country in Asia I visit and it is the same in the US: young people don't want to work in factories as living standards rise. They prefer service industry jobs, even at lower pay. Additionally there are a host of other regulations that make running factories profitably in "advanced" countries quite difficult. Just as there are so many immigrants in the US because no American wants to do those jobs.
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I agree with Brecklundin about some of the negative consequences of shipping away jobs, but also have seen what HansTWN mentions.
My grandmother worked in a garment factory in San Francisco, sewing major-label clothing for $9 to $11 per dozen blouses. Everyone in the street full of garment factories was Asian. That was nearly three decades ago. Nowadays, with the few remaining textile jobs in the U.S., you'll see likewise -- all the workers are first-generation Asian Americans or Latino Americans.
Even decades ago, my grandmother couldn't have reasonably afforded what she sewed. I remember seeing the blouses in stores such as Macy's, each selling for multiples of what my grandmother earned per dozen.