#8221 ·
Noah Sanchez2 said:It would have been much better for Europe and the rest of the West if things had been handled differently from the start. Instead, the obsession with profit margins pushed manufacturing all the way to the Far East. If we hadn't done that, wouldn't the goods be higher quality? Wouldn't more money stay in Europe, creating more jobs and perhaps even encouraging people to have more children?
Look, you can't magically conjure up more employees than there are working-age people in the population. It’s basic math. Europe doesn't have a "lack of jobs" problem—honestly, it hasn't for a long time—and the reason people aren't having many kids isn't because they're sitting around waiting for an opening at a factory; it's a much deeper demographic shift. In fact, Europe is facing a chronic shortage of workers, not a shortage of positions. And besides, if Europe actually tried to manufacture half of what it currently imports from China, who on earth would be left to staff those factories? The reality is that Europe needs to—and should be—focusing on high-value goods, maximizing the productivity of the small workforce it actually has left. Even then, most of that high-end stuff has already been outsourced too, which basically just hands free rein to the radical right.
