[mirimir]

Maybe so. But there's also the issue of underemployment. It's a pretty good bet that the Americans who used to make steel and cars and stuff didn't earn more doing whatever they did after those jobs went south/overseas. And that's probably one of the reasons why they voted for Trump.

[problems]

Yeah, they were talking about this on Freakonomics yesterday - a lot of those people working steel or textiles wound up in low paying retail or service sector jobs.

Some of those jobs might come back. Maybe not as numerous due to automation and stuff, but it might be something at least.

Hmm, maybe I should switch to microcontroller programming...