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Trump official admits US workers won’t get jobs in factories spurred by tariffs
(www.independent.co.uk)
And the factories that arent fully-automated, will be Asian-style sweatshops, with low pay, no benefits, no unions, teen labor, no health/ safety/ environmental regulations, mandated overtime without OT pay, etc.
Everybody who is excited about the "return of manufacturing" is deluding themselves if they think the new mamufacturing model is going to emulate the model that sent manufacturing overseas in the first place.
That's just it .... I think part of the plan (if you can call it that) is to crater the US economy and send everyone out into the streets with nothing ... millionaires and billionaires won't be affected (or affected that much) .... once everyone is poor with no choice, no voice, no ability, no money, then you can restart and rebuild an economy built on sweatshop, low pay, even no pay, no benefits, no unions, teen labor, child labor, no health / safety / environmental regulations, mandated overtime with no OT pay, etc
Why go to Asia to get this? .... just bring it all to America. No better model of manufacturing than to do everything at home rather than send out business to the other side of the globe .
They're gonna have a great time building their army of wage slaves, until they find out they have no one left to sell to.
They're trying to create a consumer economy with no consumers.
Sure, after all, you get to save all that money on shipping from Asia, and all that sweet profit goes directly into their pockets. It might be as much as a 1% increase!
That's worth destroying America, and the lives of 99% of our population, AND the world economy, for an inconsequential amount of money for people who already have more money than they or their heirs can ever spend.
It's easier to unionize domestically. Yes, they will start as non-union. But then you can unionize them.
Not to say this is the way to bring them back;; it's absolutely not. But it would be GOOD if measures were in place to actually bring them back, as they could be forced to provide higher paying jobs
Ah yes. The one mechanic per hundred machines or whatever is totally the same as millions of factory jobs.
Why the hell do these people want to be enslaved in factories anyway?
We can have unskilled labor that doesn't involve possibly being mangled by machinery.
The problem isn't the jobs, it's the lack of jobs and the wage rate not keeping pace with production capacity and inflation for the last 50 years.
Why the hell do these people want to be enslaved in factories anyway?
There is a very specific type of American subset that is in love with that fantasy. Real, honest, hard, labor, subservient and reliable. It gives some people purpose, value, even hope. Even for those who did not experience it firsthand, there is a tangible sense of loss for that type of American experience.
Like religion, labor can function as meaning when life appears too complex for deeper understanding.
"enslaved in factories"
Factories and similar jobs are the first ones that got unionized and work conditions ended up being the best that someone could expect without higher educations. That's what people lost with globalization and what they think they'll get back, but without unions that won't happen.