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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 37 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

It's roughly when the US shut down practically all of our manufacturing plants and laid off the vast majority of our manufacturing talent.

We've had some 40 years of mostly not passing down the knowledge of how to manufacture things well.

What manufacturing we still have is pretty amazing, but the demand for cross training - should those jobs return - is going to be way more than the remaining available talent can take on.

Bringing it back in 1980 would have given us a shot to pass on all the skills of the previous generation of skilled tradespeople.

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Ironically enough, a great solution to this problem would be to bring in Chinese experts to train American workers. The USD still spends.

[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

All I can do is mass deportation.