• Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
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      9 days ago

      A union fought for standard livable wages. There are A LOT of unionized autoworkers. Huge number, maybe millions.

      Cell phones were always an oversea item. Electronics were moved off shore for cost savings but also because they size of components/ technology changed. Asia was a huge developer of these techs. I used to work in this industry.

      Just because one industry was destroyed doesn’t mean you should destroy others.

    • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 days ago

      Didn’t say they were, almost all products these days are made by the exploitation of cheap labor in the third world.

      Only difference is there still exists a manufacturing capacity to produce cars here that we can preserve instead of letting it die at the alter of globalization.