re: #451 Obdicut

Agree that outsourcing labor to cheaper countries does mean that employment in the US is slow to build.

Yet there is even a more fundamental problem - what Americans value today does not require a great deal of local labor. We simply don’t make choices that exploit the labor that is available. We would rather not invest in the physical plant - that which exists around us. We really do have a need to work on water supplies, sewers, railroads, reconstructing old neighborhoods, etc. Yet we tend to “invest” in highly transient interests that have little value past a few years, and are easy to make.