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> non-educated workforce

Sorry, but to be frank, you just don't know what you're talking about.

I did a co-op at TMMK in Georgetown, KY many moons ago and it was a short drive from Lexington where I was studying for my mech engineering degree at UK. It is a massive university with a solid engineering school, for the uninitiated. The metro also has an excellent network of technical colleges and during my various other stints over those years, I was always impressed with the quality of the workforce on the factory floors.

As someone born in the coalfields of Appalachia, I'll admit that the ignorant hillbilly stereotype has some merit, but that's two hours of interstate driving east of where this is happening and the cultures have almost nothing in common. Hill people don't really leave the hills and Lexington is quite the "big city" for where I come from, full of hifalutin Whole Foods shoppers. I think the series "Justified" does a good job of describing this phenomenon.

There is a lot more I could address about your thoughts on labor and poverty, but it's hard to move past your premise and I don't have time to write a treatise... but JD Vance did and it's pretty good.