why is the west deindustrialising are they stupid?

services and digital services are cool and all but if you cant make anything you are at the mercy of the countries that do this is the stupidest trend of the western world hong kong became an industrial power outperforming the whole of china then they deindustrialised and now whats made from hong kong nothing if you deindustrialise the engineers cant see the process your engineers should be the near the production the line workers and factory hands know a lot more about the product they make then you would think