This would still leave UAW members making 40% more than the average American manufacturing worker.

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These jobs were expected to create more service jobs (retailers, schools, plumbers, etc.) supporting the manufacturing worker.

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And in that stuff he got right we can see the answer to this little conundrum: why Silicon Valley interns are getting, for three months work, about what a Chinese manufacturing worker gets in two years.

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