Posted by oldtanker on May 29, 2016 at 10:07:14 from (66.228.255.59):
In Reply to: Got me to thinking? posted by Geo-TH,In on May 29, 2016 at 08:15:42:
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Not true. Lead smelting has been driven out of the country. Both EPA and OSHA rules have driven jobs offshore. I know of a company that prided itself on making their product entirely in the US. That is until to stay competitive they had to move the operations to make the brass parts offshore. That was also EPA driven.
For the OP: I doubt it has much to do with those jobs moving. The biggest factor IMO is us. Average Joe citizen. We as a whole want cheap products. To supply those cheap products they have no choice but to go off shore. If the average citizen demanded quality those jobs would move back. Another thing that effects jobs is automation. Over the long term with current wages it's cheaper to use automation and robotics than it is to hire people to do the same job. And that's been going on for a long time. Heck I remember seeing a film about JD welding the frames for the "sound guard" cabs where a robotic arm place the precut pieces (cut by an automated process) into a jig and then the jig clamping down and the welding done with robotics. Just how many UAW workers lost jobs because of that? Ford went to a lot of robotics in the 80's when plants were shut down during the recession. Look at the number of jobs that went away with more modern farm equipment. The round baler eliminated stacking bales by hand. GMO's and Roundup eliminate the need to cultivate row crops. One man today could do what took 4-5 men back in the good old days like in the 60's and early 70's. So not all jobs moved. Some were just eliminated.
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