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.
This will also take many years, if not decades, to bring all of this manufacturing back to the US. You can't build electronics manufacturing plants overnight. Things like microchip manufacturing literally can take a decade and tens of billions of dollars in investment. There are also only a handful of companies that make the equipment that can make microchips, and those are typically contracted out many years in advance. You can't simply call one of them up and say "Hey, can you send me a machine next week?"
The same goes for any large scale manufacturing - car factories, clothing factories, etc.
Plus, we don't have the people here that do these jobs currently, at least not in the volume we would need, so we would have to train them all. Many of these jobs would demand much higher wages than what they demand in other countries, so guess what, the end product will cost more. But if you think your wage will go up to compensate, you have another thing coming. This administration does not want wages to go up. Republicans constantly shoot down minimum wage increases, which is why the federal minimum wage, and the minimum wage in red states is still $7.25/hour, which will not even pay for necessities in most places.
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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.