Manufacturing In the U.S. Is Not Dead
Or, what you can learn from conversing with people who are different from you
I like to use a lot of strong declarative statements that may or may not be true.
It drives my spouse crazy.
I keep doing it, though. I learned it from my parents, and do it out of youthful habit. I also do it because sometimes I feel it’s a way to get people’s attention. I do it because when I do, a lot of people who are probably better informed on the subject at hand show up to tell me how I’m wrong. I find it a very efficient way to learn.
This happened to me recently when I made the statement, in a different article, that “manufacturing is dead.”
The first thing I learned about manufacturing
Is manufacturing dead?
The last time I said that, several people in the comments informed me, emphatically, that manufacturing is in fact NOT dead.
I was really glad to hear it, because I think this world contains a variety of people and it’s better when the world also contains a variety of jobs.
After reading those comments, I thought, I actually don’t know what the state of the manufacturing industry is in America.
