It is a situation nothing at all like farming. Manufacturing output in current dollar terms is focusing on a few remaining successful sectors: autos, metals, some machinery and a half dozen, much smaller ones. Most of that growth is more about Japan's problems than our advantages.
Farming went the other way, it industrialized, and our wealth and government policy revolutionized it with Midwest grain and California's miracle in the desert.
It is a situation nothing at all like farming. Manufacturing output in current dollar terms is focusing on a few remaining successful sectors: autos, metals, some machinery and a half dozen, much smaller ones. Most of that growth is more about Japan's problems than our advantages.
Farming went the other way, it industrialized, and our wealth and government policy revolutionized it with Midwest grain and California's miracle in the desert.