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.
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.
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.
It actually does sound genius if you don’t value humanity or nations. If you’re trying to build something different this does sound like some interesting staging of some new society. I think it’s insane but it sure does look intentional in all regards.
What kind of idiocy is this? It's the ideology of nation states and arbitrary lines on a map that's at the very heart of this crap.
A child born in Lithuania today can grow up to be an American and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Nations are exploitative bullshit. They have zero value except to those at the top. QED
A nation or state is an can be much different than just the pessimistic views but I do agree with you to some degree.
Nations are how we have organized our societies and taxes to support our laws and civilization. It’s complicated and probably could be done butter but I wouldn’t leave it to the leadership shaping this world now to do a reasonable job finding and moving to a better model.
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u/SchnaapsIdee 2d 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.