>>882726>As I said before who wants to work in a factory then die at 40 from it? Anyone who wants a job. People work in mines in Australia and oilfields in the US. They even work on oil rigs in the North Sea. Are those people less valuable than accountants? There's only so many banks to work at.
But I'm not really talking about factory workers, I'm talking about STEMfags who want jobs. Guess what happens when you shut all the factories? Not only do you fuck over factory workers, but you fuck over engineering students who now must go to the mainland for work. People are moving to the US to work at GE or Germany for Siemens, what does Britain have? All we got is BAE which is a shell of it's former self.
When you fuck over factories with free trade you hurt much more than just the repairmen and assembly line people. The white collar engineers are then forced to immigrate, as are many academics. Ever hear about Silicon Valley? It exists because the US companies buy their chips and their software. First heavy industry comes, which builds white collar service jobs. Beyond that, the US still protects their mines which has resulted in semi-automation of it. Same for agriculture. Neither of these things would have happened if the companies that created them were shut down due to foreign competition. The US dominates the automation tech industry precisely because there are US companies that demand such a service. These companies create white collar engineering jobs and often even banking jobs due to the economic activity they create. We don't have that here because we don't have any factories in the first place.
A healthy economy is a diverse economy, something which the UK does not have. The UK's entire economy is based on financial services just like China's is based on light manufacturing. The result is that when economic upsets happen both get hit much harder as all their eggs are in one basket.
