Kids today see the actions of their ambient environment. It's not genetics. They see no value in a monetarily-devaluing field.
After all, if CEOs say they deserve big bucks because what they do affects the company (and then gets $21 million for wrecking the company), or bankers who also say that if their wages are capped that they will lose interest and drop talent, what do people expect when they see jobs offshored solely because the sticker costs of the replaced workers, some of which Americans even trained before getting fired, are lower? (anything else is a tangent too large for the scope of the article I am responding to.) Not to mention tax cuts, tax breaks, subsidy, bailouts, and other deemed-entitlements to reward corporations that do. Paid for by American taxpayers, and if enough jobs are lost we won't be able to bail them out anymore. Appalling, but true.
Working class people are not machines and all value is dependent on laborers.
Abe Lincoln and Henry Ford knew that...
Lastly, all of this information I've mentioned is freely found via a web search. "Americans train replacements" being a good set of keywords to start with, and one of the top-hit results involves BoA. How nice...
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