r/MurderedByWords 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/FreneticAmbivalence 1d ago

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.

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u/dakiman 1d ago

Dont get too rational, might get called a “conspiracy theorist”

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u/cantadmittoposting 1d ago

i don't think "wow these guys really are trying to tear it all down and build dystopian corporate feudalism" is much of a conspiracy theory. It's pretty much the open aim of the tech-bro faction of the extremists, competing with "patriarchal theocratic dystopia" and "white supremacist fascist dystopia" from other subgroups.