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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 98 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's ok everyone they will all be a lot better off once manufacturing comes back to the US, they can make up the difference by working in a local sweatshop.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 hours ago

The elderly yearn for the assembly lines.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Yeah, just hold on and wait for those low paying, low skilled manufacturing jobs that no one really wants to work, and that we don't have logistics in place to support.

Then you can make minimum wage working 12 hour shifts with no pension and a 401k that will flatline right before you can retire.

When you die next to the assembly line they'll cover your face with a red MAGA hat right before they wheel you to the Soylent green processing facility

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Didn't you hear? Vance is saying that manufacturing is never coming back to the US.

So even working in a sweatshop won't be an option. Well, I guess until we're colonized.

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Suppose it does come back, who is going to buy it ?

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 points 18 hours ago

What gets me is that these morons think domestically manufactured products will somehow be cheaper that their imported counterparts. The entire reason we've come to rely on imports is because they're cheaper than the domestic variant, almost entirely because American corporations are notoriously greedy shitbags. It's ridiculous to think that since imports are going to cost significantly more that American corps are going to suddenly find a conscience and charge anything remotely resembling a reasonable price for their goods/services. Even with possible breakthroughs in automation and "AI" (lol), the owner class is guaranteed to use that to enrich themselves at the cost of the rest of us.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Once wages undercut China, they can sell stuff to the Chinese.

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

They don't want that crap though, nobody does. Who are they going to sell crap to, nobody wants it.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But we don't have any manufacturing capabilities

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

And even if we did, the Dipshit put tariffs on the raw materials any factories would need to actually make stuff. He literally made shit more expensive to make here.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Even that chucklefuck billionaire was talking about how it will be all robots - openly. Meaning, I don't know how many sweatshop jobs will be on offer 5, 10, 15 years or whatever it takes to build that kind of infrastructure here...

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/tech-jobs-robots-lutnick-manufacturing-renaissance