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1 day agoPREMIUM America's secret weapon: failure
The United States fosters innovation by allowing entrepreneurs to fail and try again, unlike many other countries where failure carries a lasting stigma.
The Trump administration's nostalgic desire to revive factory jobs reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of modern economic realities and the impossibility of returning to a golden past.
"It's hard to imagine American workers wanting to sit at a sewing machine and repetitively sew for $7.50, $8 an hour, and even that's going to drive up Nike's production costs such that a pair of Nikes will go through the roof," said Betsey Stevenson, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan.