| ▲ | spamizbad 6 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
AT&T was broken up in 1982. Our manufacturing peaked around 1990 and what really pushed it downward was China joining the WTO. We also halted a lot of fab construction domestically after the GFC of '08. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | vkou 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
This is an interesting theory, but US manufacturing output actually peaked ~2022-2024. US wages paid to manufacturing jobs are going down year-over-year, because of automation, and, uh, other factors. But the amount of products that are produced has grown year over year... Or was growing, until waves at everything in 2025. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tonymet 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
the *case started in 1973 and was threatened for almost a decade beforehand. That put the entire industry on edge. | |||||||||||||||||
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