r/MurderedByWords 2d ago

Sounds about right.

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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.

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u/damunzie 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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/PairOfRussels 2d ago

Well robots are going to need to buy stuff in their down time...  with bitcoins maybe