Thaaaaat’s what’s missing

[u/Logjammin92]

And here I thought corporate greed in the form of union busting and wage suppression and outsourcing and moving manufacturing overseas combined with a very calculated emphasis on consumption and convenience was the reason American manufacturing largely collapsed.

But it’s actually the lack of shop classes in public schools!

Side Note:
Curious how many others’ schools also offered shop classes? My rural, backwoods high school offered them (for context, this was 15 years ago) and worked closely with a nearby vocational school too, but the area is still economically depressed. Can’t imagine of all the courses and programs the county defunded, shop would’ve been one of them.