I'm only asking to avert the core problems of American economic decline, and specifically Industrial and Production decline. Not hard, right?
Detroit was once the 4th biggest city in the nation. Now it's 11th, and whole sections are abandoned and left to crumble and the city forced to plan downsizing. The economic decline, which has been massive, also brought with it white-flight and social decline. If you've never seen the ruins of Detroit, I recommend looking at them. Some things I've heard mentioned for why Detroit declined was mayorial mismanagment and alienation, the Unions and Auto-companies becoming short sighted and preventing things needed to keep Detroit competitive like efficiency standards, as well as Union guidelines for pay removing competition for a worker base since everyone payed the same, and of course there's the Japanese automobile companies and other imports competing with Detroit.
Detroit was once the 4th biggest city in the nation. Now it's 11th, and whole sections are abandoned and left to crumble and the city forced to plan downsizing. The economic decline, which has been massive, also brought with it white-flight and social decline. If you've never seen the ruins of Detroit, I recommend looking at them. Some things I've heard mentioned for why Detroit declined was mayorial mismanagment and alienation, the Unions and Auto-companies becoming short sighted and preventing things needed to keep Detroit competitive like efficiency standards, as well as Union guidelines for pay removing competition for a worker base since everyone payed the same, and of course there's the Japanese automobile companies and other imports competing with Detroit.