According to our current ideology it makes no sense for us to manufacture most mundane things here because we do other things better, we are supposed to concentrate on the things we do best, law, very high tech, like defense industry, aerospace, microprocessors, very high value manufacturing and of course, entertainment, infotainment, things like youtube, Twitter, facebook and so on. These are the brands of the USA. Even if teh manufacturing is done by importaed workforces, the companies design them and get to profit on the increased value simply by putting their valued trademark on something. Like Marcel Duchamp's "readymades" in art. as they would have us see it, their act of saying it is art makes it art.
I think another challenge in the US is most of the college age kids have little to no interest in engineering. In countries like India it's just the opposite.
IMO, it's kind of embarrassing to see how universities (and society as a whole) have de-emphasized engineering compared to other countries. Put up a job opening for an engineer and chances are you'll get a ton of guys from India, China, etc. Or if you have an engineering/tech youtube channel, notice the names of folks who subscribe.
In the past 30-40 years we've progressively screwed ourselves by falling into this insatiable desire for cheap stuff from overseas, thereby destroying much of our industries. And we'll probably never get them back.
There are a lot of people here (In the US) who are very interested in technology, but unless they are very good, (unlike me) it just remains a hobby for many of us. A way to get our sanity back.
Back in the day people who were interested and knew their stuff could get a decent job doing all sorts of jobs, but now the focus is on formal credentials. Which take a long time to get. And those jobs despite their need for high level degrees, may not even offer much in the way of creative opportunity as its mostly about being a costly screen to filter out the vast majority of applicants.
With business having a huge potential labor pool of 7 billion people to draw on.
As this becomes the norm, people really will have to have carved out some area where they are extremely good to get not just a good job, any job. Small businesses wil be replaced in large numbers by global chains who get to bring along their workforces. The middle class that most of us grew up with or in around the world may in retrospect be seen as mostly a phenomenon of the late 20th century. Thats how the very wealthy+powerful seem to see it/want it. And they are in charge more now than they have been since the 1920s or even earlier.