Thats the thing the confounds me, who really wants to work in factories with long hours in probably shitty wages unless they literally have no other choice?, do we need to accept more immigrants to make up for this?
In much of the developed world, there's this cultural expectation from society that landing a comfy white collar job means you're successful, to the point that we now have a shortage of blue-collar jobs, even despite having decent or sometimes better salaries than some white-collar professions, its not like you'll be shunned, but there's definitely this undertone people will see you as "lower", "less intelligent", and not as deserving of the same level of respect if you decided on a more physically-laborious career, which is in my opinion is bullshit and we would be better off if we got rid of the stigma.
How can we undo this norm that has developed in the decades following de-industrialization, because this is probably one the biggest hurdles against bringing manufacturing back home?