re: #481 Talking Point Detective

No. And it stands to reason that small-scale manufacturers were less likely to do what I’m talking about, and certainly privately-owned companies as well. But it also stands to reason that large-scale, publicly owned companies would represent a large segment of the overall industry.

I’m sorry, but you’re depending far, far, far too much on ‘it stands to reason’.

My point was that it’s largely the (relatively) unskilled manufacturing jobs that have been lost.

Ah. I think you don’t understand that a large amount of manufacturing jobs were skilled. Assembly-line workers were skilled. That is the meaning that I’m using.

Actually, I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying.

I’m saying that even though the US still has a very large and strong manufacturing industry, one that is actually larger than it ever has been before, we no longer have large numbers of manufacturing jobs.