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It may have increased wealth overall but there's an awful lot of people stuck working in low value service industry jobs or no job at all.

People who'd outright jump at the chance to work in any of the myriad of jobs which revolve around manufacturing from engineering to trades to marketing to design to management to manual labour they all beat the low value services sector hands down.

People with a practical, technical mindset are attracted to doing practical, technical things. I've known and worked with many and they're all much the same in that regard. They're usually reasonably good with money but it's not the key motivator.

Now those are the people that created every single aspect of the modern world in which everyone else lives. Every piece of technology from aircraft through to diamond saws came about due to technical people who make and do things.

The West simply can't afford to lose them in my view, there's far more at stake than just short term money.