re: Deindustrialization - Have We Become a Poor Country?

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Not near as much as we should

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We're #2 only behind a country with like 3.5x our population.

Also, most importantly, we rank highly in the cost/value of goods we manufacture. Nobody has our scale of manufacturing and value output. China produces more low-value, low-margin crap due to its insane population. A couple countries (like Germany) produce more valuable goods, but at far lower rates. When you consider both total output and per capita value of manufactured good, NOBODY is close to the US.

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A much lower quality of life than what we could've had

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Uh...what? You have this, literally, backwards.