Moving the manufacturing of an item (let's say, wrenches) to the other side of the world for a thicker profit margin isn't the same thing as technology moving on. And most of the "service jobs" don't match the stability and earning potential that manufacturing had in the rust belt. You use the example of swordsmiths to gunsmiths- the two would have metallurgy and metalworking knowledge in common. If a factory worker gets laid off after 10 or 20 years and has to move to a service job, he has to basically start from zero with the earning potential of someone brand new. It's a shitty situation to be in.
Most people that live in the real world want stable incomes and steady jobs.
Not to mention, the Wu Flu has made it painfully obvious that it's really dumb to outsource all your manufacturing to an adversarial nation. When China at the outset of the pandemic said that the US had better watch themselves or China would just hoard all the drugs, that wasn't entirely bluster: China controls an overwhelming majority of pharmaceutical production, as well as production of the chemicals that make up the drugs. They didn't reach that position by playing fair, the government deliberately pushed the costs so low that other companies went bankrupt trying to keep up, and once they cornered the market, they were free to do whatever they wanted, including making substandard drugs that poisoned those who took them.
These decisions were only being made for one reason: profits for the guys at the top. Cutting back on labor costs means more money in the pockets of the CEOs and higher stock prices. They don't care that they're putting thousands of their countrymen out of work with no say in the matter, nor do they care that their products are getting objectively worse year over year. All they care about is money.
And of course, Bob is too much of an idiot to understand this, thinking that it's the
workers' fault they lost their jobs. "Evolve or get out of the way!" screams the basement-dwelling fatso as he laps up the megacorps' shit like a good consoomer.
Speaking of:
Bobby salivates over the prospect of more MCU cliché: the Avengers getting OK Boomered by their young, diverse, genderfluid successors:
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If there's one thing I really hope is an actual casualty of the Wu Flu, it's the fucking MCU. Please, just let this abomination die already. We don't need another fucking decade of formulaic Whedonizing capeshit. Endgame was a satisfying (albeit pandering) conclusion, a good capstone to a sprawling, ambitious project. Keeping its corpse propped up Weekend at Bernie's-style is just pathetic.
Furthermore, good God in heaven, that sounds incredibly awful, which isn't a surprise considering it's coming from Bobbo. I can tell you one thing for sure,
nobody wants to see "teen Avengers." To put it succinctly, sex sells, and I'm positive that a fair number of people were going to capeshit to see hot actors in tight costumes. Maybe not the primary reason, but it was up there. With the exception of creepy virgins like Bob, nobody's gonna be excited to see a bunch of kids running around on screen.