Comment by shortsunblack

The simple truth is that due to decades of lack of investment, chronic individualism, poor vocational schooling and inflated university degree costs, US workers cannot compete. They are less competent, less disciplined, less skilled. Some of this is due to no fault of their own, while some of this is also due to the culture. This manifests in every facet of American industrial capacity -- from "toothpick and tissue paper" home construction to most basic manufacturing like injection moulding, where moulds are used far past their serviceing periods to churn out margins.