Re: Will people learn?
The interesting thing is that CHINESE workers tend to cost more than American ones
Which is one of the reasons that Chinese manufacturers are heavily investing into production line automation (especially for the boring/error-prone pick'n'place and QC work)
Bernie et al bang on about "bringing jobs back" but they miss the point that the 12,000 worker car plant in Detroit became a 1500 worker car plant in Sonora(Mexico) and would become a 400-worker car plant in Tennessee (including the groundskeeping staff) if actually forced to return inside the USA
The jobs are gone. It's much cheaper to make things using machines and have a very few high skilled workers maintaining those machines (Technocrats in "Future Shock" parlance all the way back in 1970)
We should be concentrating on letting humans be good at what humans are good at (no, not killing each other) - regarding arts and culture as important, instead of superfluous. "Full employment" is a myth that hasn't existed in reality since the late 19th century because it hasn't NEEDED to exist
Biting the hand that feeds IT
