r/MurderedByWords 3d ago

Sounds about right.

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u/SchnaapsIdee 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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/red18wrx 3d ago

How is a self-sustaining economy supposed to work? I'm going to be honest. I don't know how a regular economy works.