The article discusses how Germany's middle class manufacturing jobs are booming while the United States is seeing a major decline in that demographic.

There's a comment after the article by 'LaughingTarget' that touches on a lot of great points but I wanted to bring up this specifically:

> For example, if an accountant is hired at BMW is classified as a manufacturing employee while an accountant in an accounting firm supporting Tesla Motors is classified as a service employee.

Classification of jobs matters, and the article's analysis of manufacturing jobs between Germany and the US seems like an apples to oranges comparison.