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Old Posted Aug 27, 2019, 4:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Obadno View Post
(even though thats largely a misconception some classic heavy industry disappeared but there is still plenty of manufacturing all over the "rust" belt)
and not even all of the classic heavy industry disappeared. some of it just got heavily automated.

for example, Gary's USX steel works still makes more steel than any other place in the north america, but a mill that once employed 30,000 people back in 1970, now only employs about 5,000 due to massive amounts of automation that were introduced into the steel fabrication process.

so in many cases, stuff is still being made in the rust belt, but lots of people don't have jobs anymore.

the popular myth is that all of the jobs got off-shored to china/mexico, but that's only half the story.

a great many of the jobs didn't go anywhere, they're just being done by machines now.
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