Here’s a good article in Forbes, The Good Old Days, about manufacturing and lost jobs and why you shouldn’t care.
We shouldn’t be so admiring of the factory jobs of yore. They were dreary, low-paid and repetitive and gave rise to strikes for a good reason. The safer course is to admire the machines that were made, but be thankful that today Americans have better jobs designing phones and selling boom boxes.
We have lost jobs, gained jobs and changed jobs over and over again — not because of some individual or political party, but because that is the way business and economic cycles work. Always be prepared. . . .and don’t whine about it.
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