<story><title>Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her, Then Her Job Moved to Mexico</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/us/union-jobs-mexico-rexnord.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fzeroracer</author><text>The American Dream has been for many years to own a nice piece of property and work your way up the corporate chain at a single company until you die. Both of which have been radically shifting as technology improves productivity and global competition becomes more of a major factor. We see people stuck in this mindset that a job will last you forever (and in many cases there are still towns where there is only One Company and One Job) and as a result have been put in a lose-lose situation.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, other nations have a more flexible workforce that are cheaper to pay for roughly the same productivity in many cases.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately there is no easy solution for this problem. For the people located in areas where jobs have entirely vanished you would have to relocate the population but that goes against the dream. You could cut regulations in order to entice companies to come back, but then you&amp;#x27;re selling the lives and well-being of the American people for jobs that Americans might not even do (see: labor shortages in the farm industries).&lt;p&gt;America will need to find a way to handle this and fast as automated cars enter the market and cut another huge swathe out of the market. The difference there though is that you can&amp;#x27;t blame other races or countries for taking your jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erentz</author><text>&amp;gt; For the people located in areas where jobs have entirely vanished you would have to relocate the population but that goes against the dream.&lt;p&gt;Relocate them where? American&amp;#x27;s are incredibly mobile in my experience, from going to college in another state, to having families sprawled across different states. If it were as simple as moving, people would be doing it.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; You could cut regulations in order to entice companies to come back...&lt;p&gt;Times have changed and we need to adjust to it. USA Inc makes a huge amount of money. In the past that required a lot of people in the workforce. Today it doesn&amp;#x27;t require nearly as many but we&amp;#x27;re making even more money! So the solution is not to remove regulation to have more people taken advantage of in dangerous factories and so we can pollute our environment. That does not benefit the Americans who live here who do not have jobs.&lt;p&gt;We need to come to an acceptance of the changing times and decide what it means to still have a society. Either we agree that we (USA Inc) make more than enough money for everyone in the country to have a good life (which we do), and work out the redistribution problem (which could take many forms), or we continue as we are with a whole lot of fellow citizens suffering needlessly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her, Then Her Job Moved to Mexico</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/us/union-jobs-mexico-rexnord.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fzeroracer</author><text>The American Dream has been for many years to own a nice piece of property and work your way up the corporate chain at a single company until you die. Both of which have been radically shifting as technology improves productivity and global competition becomes more of a major factor. We see people stuck in this mindset that a job will last you forever (and in many cases there are still towns where there is only One Company and One Job) and as a result have been put in a lose-lose situation.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, other nations have a more flexible workforce that are cheaper to pay for roughly the same productivity in many cases.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately there is no easy solution for this problem. For the people located in areas where jobs have entirely vanished you would have to relocate the population but that goes against the dream. You could cut regulations in order to entice companies to come back, but then you&amp;#x27;re selling the lives and well-being of the American people for jobs that Americans might not even do (see: labor shortages in the farm industries).&lt;p&gt;America will need to find a way to handle this and fast as automated cars enter the market and cut another huge swathe out of the market. The difference there though is that you can&amp;#x27;t blame other races or countries for taking your jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pgeorgi</author><text>&amp;gt; other nations have a more flexible workforce&lt;p&gt;That story seems to be told to every nation&amp;#x27;s workforce, and so I&amp;#x27;d be suspicious about that.</text></comment>