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throw567643u8today at 1:37 PM3 repliesview on HN

That's because we let all the industries go offshore, for the promises of Neoliberalism. That should never have happened either.


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ben_wtoday at 2:02 PM

Goal-shifting aside, and be that as it may for offshoring, but Neoliberalism was Thatcher, and she was popular in part because the trade unions were seen as too powerful, which in part was because of the then-recent history of the coal miners' union going on strike and forcing a three-day week for much of British industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week