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.
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.
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.
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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.