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Originally Posted by FL 4Motion
I talked about this before on here, you can restore American manufacturing and then we all pay higher costs to offset higher production costs incurred.
Unfortunately average peoples salaries have been declining since the 70s so since our purchasing power is eroded we notice increased manufacturing costs more (inflationary).
Or, we can make our sh1t in China, India, etc and have cheap goods that help people ignore/forget wages have not been increasing for the majority of Americans fairly for the last 50 years but that money has gone to the csuite, stock values and executive compensation at our expense.
You can’t have it both ways.
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I fundamentally disagree with this. Wages/salaries have NOT been decreasing. Look at minimum wage and look at income from the 70's and now (they have significantly increased). What has gone down, due to inflation, is buying power.