Politics and Money

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I suggest you start a manufacturing facility (in Colorado), pick a product,any product and compete in the USA. You might actually begin to appreciate how decisions are made that:

1) Optimize the process.
2) Keep fixed costs to a minimum.
3) Keep variable costs in a range that allows you to produce, and market, at a total cost which is less then the market acceptable selling price.
4) Hire workers who will be reasonably compensated, with benefits that are commensurate with manufacturers in your region and are capable of performing the necessary task.

Trust me, it isn't easy.

First you pretend to worry about paying insurance and then you just let them go.

We automated the process(s) from the early 90's through the beginning of the 2000's. We didn't "let them go", we didn't replace workers who left.

So lets not pretend you did it all so your workers would be safer.

That was one of the benefits of automation. Every automated factory generally has higher wages because they need fewer employees and any business in a competitive market that doesn't "worry" about cost all costs isn't in business for long.