If you ever look in an encyclopedia at various countries, or states it shows the “workforce” section. Like Community, Social & personnel services, wholesale and retail, Government vendors and payrolls, Finance, Insurance, public transportation, etc.
But ONLY the manufacturing, farming, mining, and construction groups support all the others. All the others need or live off or need, manufacturing, farming, mining, and construction to live. A producer of any thing, can survive without an office or showroom, but an office or showroom can not exist without a producer.
The American people got scammed real good by the scum when the NON producers (overhead) “fired” domestic producers and gleefully hired foreign producers. Buying imports. That’s why as per all of Goldilocks many negative observations are here, and why Trump is here.
Nobody gave a CRAP about domestic producers except the producers. We need THINGS eat and drive more than we need the people that service things.