That's the thing these people don't understand. The manufacturing sector employing large parts of the population in the US is never coming back, even with the assumption that tariffs will bring back manufacturing. That ship has simply sailed.
And besides, this is a trend that was happening in western countries anyway, i.e manufacturing being brought back, but with a much higher degree of automation.
And whether its robots or humans is immaterial really. The fact is that work was originally contracted out of the US for the sole reason of lowering costs and increasing profits. If by some miracle the manufacturing process does return to the US then the cost to the consumer will be considerably higher no matter who or what is making it.
Which means it ain’t coming back. Some idiot was blathering about how great it will be when textiles are made in the USA again. Uhh, how? “In the factories.” Dude, those were bulldozed or turned into warehouse space 30 ago.
And american workers just don't have the skills other countries do in producing specialized things like these anymore because they haven't done it in decades like other countries have.
So america will end up having worse quality products at a more expensive price because labor costs will be higher but with less expertise.
We can learn, but it doesn’t matter since there isn’t a rational reason to try and bring manufactured for current stuff back. That said, we need to, for more strategic purposes have production capabilities for a lot of things.
I agree. I’m quite sure every business has already done the numbers and it still makes more business sense to weather this storm than it is to go through all the hassle, upheaval and associated costs to bring it back to the US.
Exactly. All these “wins” will be the undoing of republicans in 2026, the presidency in 2028. It’s such an easy formula- “are you better off now than you were 4 years ago - if you’re not a billionaire that is?” People talk about how they’re for on party of the other, but they vote with their pocketbook. Trump knows he only has another 17 months to make all of this seem better before they get hammered in the mid terms.
Plus, why build a factory that’ll take 3-4 years to complete when the tariffs are going to be gone about the time it comes online? Besides, tariffs will increase the gross profit dollars for everyone as long as people buy their crap, bit of an unknown how that volume will be impacted. So the high costs will just means more profit dollars, and don’t think they won’t put a bit extra in for the big guy.
It does amaze me that legal slavery is still a thing in the USA.
People really need to care about the rights of criminals a lot more, because if you don’t all that has to happen is you get labelled a criminal and suddenly you have no rights.
Fair point. The US does already have a huge cheap labour/slavery system within its prison system but as far as I’m aware they don’t make anything anywhere as technical as mobile phones etc…but it certainly could be applied for other products I guess and would keep those costs down.
One of the collateral benefits of Donnie economics is that more and more people will be unable buy cars, and thus, their health will improve because they will be able (forced) to get more exercise walking and riding bikes!
Also, like, the fact that the US already has the world's second largest manufacturing sector, and all of the hand wringing about manufacturing jobs is straight gaslighting.
Wonder who's making and repairing those robots though.
And who's going to be able to buy those phones?
Like, I'm no economist by any degree, but, part of being able to sell things is a person being able to afford it. But with their plans of recession and depression (and further a whole swath of people being jailed, ah fuck)...
They're going to make prisoners make these things aren't they? Meanwhile probably going to civil war.
If labor rights were the same around the world - everyone had guaranteed rights to time off, breaks, minimum pay - then would it be brought back? Is the reason we exported labor because our workers have more rights now, and we want to exploit workers whose countries don't protect them?
Also, they don't account for the fact that even if companies moved manufacturing back to the US, it would take years to happen.
I can't remember where I read this, but economists said that once countries move on from manufacturing, they become service-based economies, which are more profitable than manufacturing-based ones.
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u/Sikletrynet 23h ago
That's the thing these people don't understand. The manufacturing sector employing large parts of the population in the US is never coming back, even with the assumption that tariffs will bring back manufacturing. That ship has simply sailed.
And besides, this is a trend that was happening in western countries anyway, i.e manufacturing being brought back, but with a much higher degree of automation.