In the new decade, I hope that we reach a consensus on the absolute negligence of treating deindustrialization as an ineluctable fact of our economy or, worse yet, as merely a “price of progress.”https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/business/economy/30opioids-auto-plants.html …
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It strikes me as the tail wagging the dog—saying that we gotta keep making cars, otherwise the people who make cars will be sad
In this sense, you're right. But I think the broader point is that deindustrialization was a policy choice and we ignored the negative externalities of that choice. Our "retrain them for other jobs" rhetoric—which was bipartisan—never materialized into reality.
