alt Hacker NewsI get why the government is keen to do this, but what sane citizen wants to live anywhere near those factories they want to bring back? Nothing like contaminated drinking water, poor air quality, acid rain that ruins your cars paint, noise and light pollution etc, etc, etc. Not to mention they'd surely be built with automation in mind to rug pull and wishful thinking about job creation. No thanks.
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orionblastar • today at 12:21 AM
The factory work doesn't pay as much as Nursing careers or Building Houses for carpenters, plumbers, roofers, etc.
I have a feeling factories will use H1B Visas to bring in immigrants to do the work and fire them as soon as the H1B Visa expires, and hire all new H1B Visa workers.
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This seems to confirm one of the premises of Capital by Marx, as this only works while there is inequality in the global market.
As purchasing power in China grows, their labour costs grow because they start demanding similarly unpolluted environment, and dirty production will start moving to the next country.
Is it not the answer that you demand a clean production or stop using products which cannot guarantee it? The fact that consumers do not apply this logic means that NIMBY can only take you so far, because if we accept polluting productions, some humans will have to deal with it somewhere.