Trump's stated "big bet" on bringing manufacturing back is dumb [View all]

Unless he puts a ban on companies using automation, as well as revitalize labor unions (which his whole movement hates), workers will lack the leverage needed to ask for higher wages, in addition to much less of them being needed per plant. New manufacturing plants will be far more automated than they were long ago. The amount of people employed at an auto assembly plant will be considerably less, just look at this video from Nissan of Japan of how a car is assembled: