What Socialists think the 1950's were like
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Not only that, but men weren't competing with women for jobs -- a class of people who can afford to work for less because they're not expected to provide for a family.
Back then, the US used to make things in factories. Women would rather stay home than break her fingers assembling a car.
Learning that the US isn't capable of making any significant amount of basic medicine during the pandemic was crazy.
It's why I have no faith in AI and the hysterical claims it's going to usher in a "Second Industrial Revolution."
The US had a good run, staving off inflation by sending our manufacturing base to third-worlders and selling Treasury bonds to them instead of trading anything of real value. But those chickens are now coming home to roost.