In comparing the skills of just the manufacturing jobs created and lost, you ignore the seismic and dominating change in the urban/rural ratio. The process can be seen at an accelerated rate today in China: peasants transformed into workers and getting paid higher income as the result, thus expanding the economy. Peasants to workers is a much weightier trend than skilled workers to unskilled workers.
Ah. I think we may be working from different senses of “associate”. I took it to indicate perceptions, not real economic changes. You are of course right that the Industrial Revolution led to a larger economy and that the urban/rural shift had a lot to do with that.
In comparing the skills of just the manufacturing jobs created and lost, you ignore the seismic and dominating change in the urban/rural ratio. The process can be seen at an accelerated rate today in China: peasants transformed into workers and getting paid higher income as the result, thus expanding the economy. Peasants to workers is a much weightier trend than skilled workers to unskilled workers.
Ah. I think we may be working from different senses of “associate”. I took it to indicate perceptions, not real economic changes. You are of course right that the Industrial Revolution led to a larger economy and that the urban/rural shift had a lot to do with that.