I learned a new word today. Re-shoring, or reshoring without the hyphen, is when American companies bring back operations from overseas. They do this because the work is automated, and robots can work as cheaply in the U.S. as in China. Unfortunately, while Chinese employees lose their jobs, American workers don't gain employment. As automation grows (think driverless trucks), more and more Americans become superfluous. This is already a problem, and it grows bigger each year.
It would be so nice to have a President for the next four years who understood such issues and did more than spout slogans and post tweets, but that ain't what we got.
Note: Tomorrow evening I'll be flying back to Penna., arriving in Philadelphia about 11:30, so I won't be posting. I might not even be awake.
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