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People here in the rural USA also think that factory jobs are magically "good", and that it was factory jobs themselves that created the middle class. As if the factory owner is somehow different and more noble than the owners of other giant corporations.
In reality the unions literally shed blood to make those jobs "good jobs". Those unions, and class consciousness, have since been destroyed. Even if 20th century style manufacturing did return it would just be another form of resource extraction. Those jobs may save people from the absolute destitution they face having been abandoned by their government but they're not going to support a healthy community. That's simply not good for business. When you don't give a fuck about human beings then what's actually "good" for business is a desperate, starving workforce.
People here praise Walmart, even though the community is demonstrably poorer. They've completely forgotten what was lost. They talk about that one great uncle who was fucked over by the unions the same way they talk about that one second cousin who never wore a seatbelt and was saved from a wreck when he was "thrown clear". They all believe they will somehow be thrown clear from the wreck that's been happening for 50 years.