labor unrest in the 1950s and 1960s caused GE to branch out beyond Pittsfield. The manufacturing industry that was so prominent in the region began to fall off in the 1970s, a trend that continued into the 1980s. GE began expanding globally rather than domestically
On how what happened in Lancaster reflects a larger trend in capitalism
When you can pay a foreign worker a third or less of what you're paying a unionized flint glass worker in Lancaster, that's an element, but it's far from the only one. We seem to have this shrugging-shoulders belief that this is all some sort of natural evolution, like how the dinosaurs died. But what I'm trying to argue in the book is that some of this, at least in part, results from a series of conscious decisions [by] politicians, economists, business people, financiers.
Chris Hedges 【一個激進作家、新聞工作者】 described the city he saw in 2010: "Youngstown, like many postindustrial pockets in America, is a deserted wreck plagued by crime and the attendant psychological and criminal problems that come when communities physically break down."
According to one factory owner in Youngstown, Ohio, “There are good-paying jobs and the opportunity for people in our area. We just can’t find people to show up who can pass a drug test”
去年在《彼得森國際經濟研究所Peterson Institute for International Economics》一個研討會上，大家分析當前產業就業的挑戰，主要是機器人，勞工關係。Autor提到他和經濟學界的共同看法：中國衝是一個曆史性的事件，以前沒有，以後也不再會發生，而且中國的人口結果說明中國再也沒有這樣的能力了。
其實美國製造業的相對產能並不高，如今隻占美國經濟的20%左右，單純看絕對產能是沒意義的，因為所有國家的相關行業的絕對產能都在增加，因為技術在進步。
如果清楚曆史，尤其是從奴隸製就開始的經濟模式，就不難看出如今的世界經濟在資本主義經濟模式下與奴隸製並沒有本質區別，永遠在尋找最好是奴隸性質的勞動力，美國不過是把這事情弄到了國外罷了。
人類最終會走到對機器人奴役的地步，這是可以預見的。
而馬斯洛的人類社會心理需求層次的理論提供了原因。隻要沒有世界規模的大戰，全球化這件事就是沒有回頭路的。
樓下有人問“高端製造業中共國有嗎？”，看看六十年代made in Japan是什麽概念？
是本世紀初十年made in China的概念。而到了80年代時made in Japan又是什麽概念？
就知道到了2030年代made in China是什麽概念。
一個國家隻要通過經濟積累了資金，就會在科技上有突破，因為會吸引世界上最多的科學家，比如美國如今一流的教授也有開始去中國工作的了，這指的是非華人，這是中國開始開發移民的主要因素。
畢竟中國方麵出的錢，尤其是機會開始超過美國了，而一個科學家的生命是有限的，誰不願意有機會。
中國也會有進入後工業時代的過程，屆時製造業也會移除中國，隻有一個例外。
就是出現計劃經濟。
labor unrest in the 1950s and 1960s caused GE to branch out beyond Pittsfield. The manufacturing industry that was so prominent in the region began to fall off in the 1970s, a trend that continued into the 1980s. GE began expanding globally rather than domestically
On how what happened in Lancaster reflects a larger trend in capitalism
When you can pay a foreign worker a third or less of what you're paying a unionized flint glass worker in Lancaster, that's an element, but it's far from the only one. We seem to have this shrugging-shoulders belief that this is all some sort of natural evolution, like how the dinosaurs died. But what I'm trying to argue in the book is that some of this, at least in part, results from a series of conscious decisions [by] politicians, economists, business people, financiers.
Chris Hedges 【一個激進作家、新聞工作者】 described the city he saw in 2010: "Youngstown, like many postindustrial pockets in America, is a deserted wreck plagued by crime and the attendant psychological and criminal problems that come when communities physically break down."
According to one factory owner in Youngstown, Ohio, “There are good-paying jobs and the opportunity for people in our area. We just can’t find people to show up who can pass a drug test”
去年在《彼得森國際經濟研究所Peterson Institute for International Economics》一個研討會上，大家分析當前產業就業的挑戰，主要是機器人，勞工關係。Autor提到他和經濟學界的共同看法：中國衝是一個曆史性的事件，以前沒有，以後也不再會發生，而且中國的人口結果說明中國再也沒有這樣的能力了。
