I do believe that we must work to make America more productive. I don’t really know what you mean by “bring jobs back to America” other than that you want to end or force-balance trade with China.
So you can see that division of labor at the Wilson Football Plant is critical to not only the success of Wilson, Inc., but to each employee as well and that’s important.
Did you also notice all the machinery? At one stage a guy uses just a metal rod to turn the footballs right-side out. Did you see that? That rod, along with all the machinery, is capital. Labor without capital is very, very inefficient. Think of a carpenter without a hammer.
So labor and capital go together, but what if a machine was made that could replaced the guy who turns the footballs right-side out, would it be OK to replace that worker with a more efficient machine? What about if another worker could do his job more efficiently, would it be OK to use a more efficient worker?
I have no problem whatsoever to improving manufacturing, even when those improvements mean automation which result in the loss of American jobs.
Zero problem from me.
What I object to is China taking over manufacturing in the world.
I believe that has strategic importance, about which American has for some reason become terribly short-sighted.
Bring back jobs to America. That is my point.
America needs to manufacture things. Right here.