r/MurderedByWords • u/Nigel_Hunter • 1d ago

Sounds about right.

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u/SchnaapsIdee 1d ago

The Commerce secretary was on CNBC yesterday am talking about how the tariffs will bring back manufacturing jobs to US. Then a few seconds later was talking about having Apple (and other companies) make their products in the US using robotics. So very few actual American humans getting jobs.

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u/damunzie 1d ago

He's also fond of saying we're going to make trillions from the tariff payments, but we'll all be buying American products. The math does not check out.

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 1d ago

The government will take trillions from the American populous, then when all manufacturing comes back to the US, tariff revenue will drop to zero. But Americans will still pay the higher prices to the corporations.

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u/DrawohYbstrahs 1d ago

…and none of the factories will employ humans, as they’ll all use robots.

GENIUS long term plan guys. GENIUS.

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u/NoPasaran2024 1d ago

To be fair, it's the long term plan of capitalism.

They're just accelerating it. Stupidly.

Which is actually in our favor, because the faster they completely trash the system, the sooner it's game over for this vile system of exploitation.

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u/Soft_Importance_8613 1d ago

the sooner it's game over for this vile system of exploitation.

This is not a great assumption. Russians completely trashed the system, and yet there is no end in sight for their vile system.

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u/Aggravating-Forever2 1d ago

One would need to have a plausibly better system at the ready. More plausible is a different (but no better) system of exploitation.