Manufacturing

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Making stuff. That's about it.

Some 300 years ago, the big high-tech product? Horseshoes. Manually manufactured. Then along came this waffle iron press technology, and instead of making one shoe at a time, the shoer could make eight.

Yada yada, to today, where manufacturing isn't just an economic and/or technical process. It's a political one as well. "Will we make these shoes in America with union labor at $27 an hour? Or will we make them in Mexico for $5 an hour and just ship 'em? Can we survive the competition if we don't?" Hotbed discussion.

And then come the robots, who work for the equivalent of $1 an hour, and all the humans go home and...do what? Maybe clip food stamps?

Yeah, rough world. Welcome to the NFL. Not Fortunate Labor.

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