Would interesting to know what percentage themselves or their own children wanted to work at a factory. Can tell with a huge degree of confidence for all practical purposes thats 0.
Its always easy to expect other people to make sacrifices working these jobs, while imagining you and your kids working office desk jobs.
Every tradesman I know makes north of 80k, granted it's backbreaking work. I assume working in a factory such as semiconductors pays 6 figs, as an engineer or foreman of some kind.
If they are literally stamping parts together on an assembly line then I guess yeah it's not going to pay 100k.
Bringing back factory jobs isn’t bringing back the American dream. It’s just replacing the shitty gig work you have to do to barely get by with a shitty factory job that you have to do to barely get by. If they pay well, it’ll drive up the cost of goods a ton and still be unhelpful for people.
You would be able to afford a lot less if everything you bought was made in factories where every worker was paid north of $100k. That includes your home, by the way.
Its always easy to expect other people to make sacrifices working these jobs, while imagining you and your kids working office desk jobs.