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[-] Yoga@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I think you would need far more than 25% to get to where the average “why don’t we make things anymore” dork dreams about

Germany is at 21% and that's after a fairly sizable decline over time:

https://eures.europa.eu/living-and-working/labour-market-information-europe/labour-market-information-germany_en

Given how automated everything is today, 25% of the population working in manufacturing is a pipedream.

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