"Being willing to wear Nike does not mean being willing to make Nike!" A Republican "angel investor" is furious. Only 20% of Americans are willing to work in manufacturing.
US President Trump hopes to bring manufacturing back to the US through tariff wars. But will American youth agree?
"A human army of millions will tighten tiny screws to manufacture iPhones, and such things will happen in the United States. They will be automated, and great American technical workers will repair them." At a press conference, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick looked ahead to the future like this.
In fact, 80% of Americans believe that manufacturing needs to return, but 73% of Americans do not want to tighten screws in factories.
This is the survey result recently published by the UK's Financial Times, and it is the conclusion drawn by the Cato Institute in the United States based on large-scale questionnaires in 2024.
Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, said that now about 60% of Americans' reading levels do not even reach the sixth grade of elementary school, which cannot meet the requirements of manufacturing positions. But if they cannot even understand the operation manual of CNC machine tools, how can the US achieve "re-industrialization"?
Apple CEO Tim Cook once said that China's real advantage lies in the astonishing number of industrial engineers, whose skills are also quite proficient. Apple is not in China because of cost, but because Chinese workers master high skills.
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