r/MurderedByWords • u/Nigel_Hunter • 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 1d 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/SkullDump 1d ago

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.

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u/TimequakeTales 1d ago

Let's not forget that also resulted in lowered prices for consumers.

If all manufacturing came back to the US, magically, prices would skyrocket and remain high indefinitely.

People refuse to realize that offshoring production lowers prices. They want two things that mutually contradict.