Outsourcing

You build jeans. You love your highly paid union laborers. They love you.

The problem? You can't provide your product at a price point that is competitive with the almost-identical product delivered by the Chinese via their Most Excellent Happy Happy People's Prison Labor Camp of Jean Sewing.

Walmart won't pay up for American-made anymore because, well, the customers at Walmart really don't care that much who made their jeans. They just want them cheap and of high value.

So what do you do? You make them in Mexico. You outsource. And sadly, that has become a Thing in the modern era. "First-world" countries with highly paid union labor can no longer afford to keep that labor at $34-an-hour-all-in-with-pension-and-health-benefits cost to the employer...versus the $3-an-hour labor available in Mexico or China.

So outsourcing is a big industry now. Laborers will learn to deal with it. Or learn to code Java.