Something happened in the 1970s. The U.S. and Britain stopped building infrastructure. They stopped raising up a trained workforce - and began importing unskilled migrants. Education went into a spiral that continues to this day.
Rethinking Left & Right - Deindustrialisation and the worker's ruin - Kamala's price controls
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/crisis-update-rethinking-left-and

Ruination of the Western worker since 1975 makes such price controls topical.
Salaries for 90 per cent of citizens would have been almost 70 per cent higher.
But for the globalist transformations of society that began in the 1970s.