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/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.

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u/ArticulateRhinoceros 23h ago

It's like thinking making cars unaffordable will revitalize the horse and carriage business.

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u/DentedAnvil 23h ago

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!

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