In the past the more physical manpower intensive industrial processes that weren't readily adaptable and/or cost effectively converted to some form of computer based automation have usually been moved to facilities located out of the USA for the much cheaper wage/benefits cost of labor.
Doubtful that more extensive use of automation will change that practice much if any unless no loop-hole rigid enforcement of increased importation rules and tariffs result in automation becoming the lesser in cost and bureaucratic hassle.
there we have it. the drumbeat of tradewars off in distance just over the horizon. in a controlled economy ldrshp can do whatever it wants, and we'll live with the results as long as possible. in a free-market economy, more or less, we'll do our best to live with the results as long as possible. that is, if mfg'r don't pursue lowest cost mfg practices, at some acceptable level of quality, they may go broke?
