The ever increasing globalisation has created one major problem; shipping is so easy and inexpensive these days that it works for large companies to pay tariffs and duties on otherwise expensive to import things like luxury goods. Which means that it works for them to just pay someone in a low wage country to do the work and hike the price massively when selling when compared to the cost of transportation and manufacture.
If you want to do something about that your best bet isn't national. You need to think worldwide.
Or, you know, take the economic hit of increasing tariffs and international trade isolation. And if you do that the situation might not improve; personnel is one of the greatest cost factors. It has always been one of the greatest cost factors; people are expensive. It's just that only now that it's become comparatively cheaper to eat the large cost of automation infrastructure up front and letting the much lower costs of maintaining that infrastructure pay you back after some time.
If you want to do something about that your best bet isn't national. You need to think worldwide.
Or, you know, take the economic hit of increasing tariffs and international trade isolation. And if you do that the situation might not improve; personnel is one of the greatest cost factors. It has always been one of the greatest cost factors; people are expensive. It's just that only now that it's become comparatively cheaper to eat the large cost of automation infrastructure up front and letting the much lower costs of maintaining that infrastructure pay you back after some time.