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Sure. The de-industrialization of America has been devastating for class awareness.

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What de industrialization?

US is second largest industrial output and it has been rising.

Unless you mean jobs after NAFTA and code changes… Which is true but manufacturing employment is on the rise post covid reforms

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The US shifted the vast majority of its production overseas, which is why it’s seen as a “service economy.”

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US did offshore no doubt but it was not a vast majority. You can check the numbers, there was some decline in employment but US has high tech factories and industrial base is now growing quickly even with job growth since covid.

The reason it is largely a service economy is due to growth in service sector after industrialization. Once people got all their needs with goods met, they started buying service.

Think about all the food joints we have now for example. This is fairly recent thing. Sure food out always existed but not like this.

Also, people have god walkers, people buy insurance etc all this is kinda recent in big picture thing

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