Manufacturing is low value commodity work. If for some reason a country has lots of low value commodity bodies to screw things on, then focusing on manufacturing makes sense. But if you want a high standard of living, you need to have high productivity. That is incompatible with humans working assembly lines as they simply aren't that productive.
The US economy is the world leader and continues to pull ahead of everyone else.
The US economy is the world leader and continues to pull ahead of everyone else.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/04/13/the-lessons-fro...