Why Are Politicians So Obsessed with Manufacturing?
><i>Why Are Politicians So Obsessed with Manufacturing?</i><p>Because when the shit comes to shove and the global economy takes a nosedive or your previous friendly third world manufactures give you the finger, having a "service industry" is worth nothing, but being able to produce the actual shit your businesses design and sell/export, matters.<p>Of course for the US this might be less so, because they can always force, by diplomacy or might, those developing world manufacturers to comply.<p>Another question would be why are people like the author of the article not particularly hot for manufacturing?<p>Because they are upper middle class pundits, have worked all their lives in the culture/media/academic etc industries, and could not care less for lost manufacturing jobs and other such stuff.<p>That's how we get books about the world being flat, industry doesn't matter, it's all "information" and "creativity" now, from people that could not suffer a day without electricity (and the hard work that goes into producing it), or without their car, etc.