Brain357
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Less skill is used than manufacturing? What do you base that on? Many service jobs require a lot of knowledge. Many manufacturing jobs are quite mindless...Service jobs pay less because less skill is required to do themIs factory work so much harder it deserves higher pay? Perhaps service jobs should pay more...Millions of factory workers are having to take low paying service and retail jobs after their factory moved to chinaGlobalism causes low wages in AmericaI don’t mean anything. I’m giving you the facts. Unemployment has been super low and we have more than enough wealth. Workers not getting paid is obviously an internal problem. If unemployment was really high you might have a point. Under these circumstances it’s obviously an internal problem.
Then why hasn't it caused low wages?
Do you really think wages in the US are low? Compared to where?
We are paid more in wages in the US, than anywhere in the world. Anywhere. Nordic countries? Significantly more. Europe? Significantly more. Asia? Dramatically more.
The US has been the most globalized economy, of any country, that has ever existed in human history, and we have been a global economy long before the term "Globalization" even existed.
By your logic, we should have the lower wages than China in the 1970s.
Meanwhile, every country that has openly engaged in protectionism, and isolated itself from the global economy.... which countries are those? Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, pre-78 China? Pre-91 India?
Why do you think the richest cities on the planet, are all port cities? Singapore, Hong Kong, Toyko, Abu Dhabi, Daho, Dubai, Barcelona, LA / San Francisco, Chicago, Amsterdam, Toronto, San Diego.
You see a pattern? Obviously some locations are not port cities, like Paris and Madrid. But the vast majority of highly wealthy cities, are all port cities.
Why is that? Because trade and wealth, are directly connected.
someday our children or grandchildren may be rickshaw drivers pulling fat chinese around from bars to brothels thanks to globalization