Deindustrialization is great, most industrial jobs are the worst. To the extent other countries want to take them on, it puts America at a huge advantage. Once robotization and full automation happen, there will be no reason to build in one place over another, and all the assembly work will return (as not having to expend energy moving final products from their assembly location to their final destinations will represent an advantage).

The jobs never will though, nor do we actually want them to. This is why we need UBI.

Seriously, why would we want, in the future, to pay people to smack metal with a hammer? Let's get the jobs elsewhere ASAP, unless you can tell me with a straight face the future will involve more humans in the manufacture of goods -- in which case we should be getting a head start. Nobody will say that though because it's crazy.

Trying to add humans back to the manufacturing process, who don't need to be there, amounts to a regressive make-work project we're engaging in, intentionally adding inefficiency, instead of actually changing society and positioning ourselves for the inescapable future of humanity. In my opinion, America is squandering a huge lead by glamorizing crap jobs nobody actually needs to do, let alone wants. Like coal mining.

What's next, a return to whale oil?