Salaries are not by much a do, or die determinant.
Even Switzerland has a number of mass market shoes companies with 100% of manufacturing inside the country. And Swiss manual labour salaries are out of this world.
The problem is Americans suck at doing business: lack of entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, wits, and grit. A universal solution of overcoming adverse conditions: "exit, and sell."
I worked in OEM manufacturing my whole career, soon to be 10 years of full time work. Every time I hear we get a big new buyer, and he/she is American, I feel joy, and dread at the same time.
Joy, because big American companies are as a rule well moneyed. Dread because there is so much truly unnecessary tedious work, and ceremony with them.
Once upon a time, a buyer demanded our "risk management," and "crisis management plan," I dropped from a chair laughing.
Any problem faced by a big company is solved by throwing consultants, and attorneys at the problem, which don't solve anything 9 out of 10 times.
Even Switzerland has a number of mass market shoes companies with 100% of manufacturing inside the country. And Swiss manual labour salaries are out of this world.
The problem is Americans suck at doing business: lack of entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, wits, and grit. A universal solution of overcoming adverse conditions: "exit, and sell."
I worked in OEM manufacturing my whole career, soon to be 10 years of full time work. Every time I hear we get a big new buyer, and he/she is American, I feel joy, and dread at the same time.
Joy, because big American companies are as a rule well moneyed. Dread because there is so much truly unnecessary tedious work, and ceremony with them.
Once upon a time, a buyer demanded our "risk management," and "crisis management plan," I dropped from a chair laughing.
Any problem faced by a big company is solved by throwing consultants, and attorneys at the problem, which don't solve anything 9 out of 10 times.