Report Card for Donald Trump

[Mikebert]

(01-02-2017, 03:12 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:

Quote:I took a look. You wrote:

The United States is number 7 on the list, and the top three countries all have manufacturing work forces that make up over 20% of their labor force, roughly double the United States' 12%.

The same source you used for these three countries also has the US with more than 20%.  But it is true than these these other countries all have large shares than the US.  Then again, they industrialized later and I believe all three run trade surpluses, which we do not as a matter of policy.

You're only interested in the automation bit?  Fair enough.

To that end, look at the sources most closely.  

I did and I see the 12% so I see where you got that.  But this is for manufacturing whereas the others are for industry.  I suspect the categories for the other three countries are more broadly defined (as there are fewer of them).  The GDP figures are for industry for all four and each shows the same number of categories.  So the GDP sector comparisons are more likely apples to apples than the labor comparisons.