re: #473 Talking Point Detective

I’m sorry, but since it’s not broken down by industry, that doesn’t actually support your argument.

If you look around, you’ll see that the manufacturing industry, as a whole turned, increasingly, towards raising stock prices through debt acquisition (as counter-intuitive as that seems) to attract investors.

If you don’t want to do the research yourself and you don’t want to take my word for it, that’s your prerogative.

Well, it’d be a rather large chore, for very little benefit. I have no idea, for example, how much manufacturing comes from large firms vs. small ones. Do you?

To a large degree, automation has increased the baseline skill level of employees in the manufacturing industry, not decreased it.

Er, yes. But that has zero relevance to what I was talking about. I wasn’t talking about skill level, but simply the number of skilled jobs.

And I don’t think that we’re talking about problems that are as mutually exclusive as you do

I never said that the problems were mutually exclusive.

Despite the growth in output, the manufacturing industry in this country, but not just this country, has some very significant obstacles.

Could you maybe sum up what you think I’m saying the problem in manufacturing is, please?