This is the SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, who apparently has no idea how corporations actually operate. - ThreadSky

kevinmkruse.bsky.social • 1 day ago

This is the SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, who apparently has no idea how corporations actually operate.

“Why do we *let* other countries build the iPhone? Why don’t we have Americans working sweatshop jobs at long hours in dangerous conditions?”

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fsumogle.bsky.social•1 day ago

Of course they want the Guilded age back. Fast track the elimination of all worker safety and rights. Eliminate all wage laws. Ban unions. Force company dorms.
A billionaires paradise. Never needs to worry about accidentally running into an employee anywhere.

n5iln.bsky.social•1 day ago

Was he not around for "right-shoring"?

michaelspoint.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Archie bunker said something similar.

popeye49.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Nailed it!

monax.bsky.social•1 day ago

He was an investment banking exec a year and a half out of college, he never got a chance to learn anything real

ishaav.bsky.social•22 hours ago

The unintended *upside* being that now you can reflect on how market exploitation works.

Doesn't everybody aspire to a life of starvation wages working for the rich?

natteringnaybob.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Didn't Rs pass legislation to encourage American corporations to move manufacturing overseas?

landruajm.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean, why does Japan let us build Toyotas here, huh?

meada.bsky.social•1 day ago

C'mon, who *doesn't* want to pay $16K for an iphone?

kcroysdale.bsky.social•1 day ago

Even if you could find the people to create the iPhone, he does not understand the supply chain required. Replicating the whole supply chain of parts and machinery could push this into the millions.

kcroysdale.bsky.social•1 day ago

Foxconn alone has over 1 million workers, and there are 40+ companies in that supply chain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_supply_chain

Does he intend to ship back and forth to Asiapac for the work that cannot be done here?

meechelle.bsky.social•1 day ago

Security and intellectual property requirements would not even let this be a thought. Lutnik knows nothing about Apple nor its manufacturing. The more he talks about, the tighter Apple raises their security requirements.

ktheintz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lutnick is a finance guy, I doubt he has any notion of any of this

ktheintz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Interesting that the Trump admin doesn't have anyone from the manufacturing sector, given what a priority onshoring those jobs is for them

(by interesting, read evidence of their howling bad faith)

startinover.bsky.social•1 day ago

So he wants Foxconn conditions?

https://www.bbc.com/news/10182824

theultrasecret.bsky.social•1 day ago

So many questions to things we already have answers to that they’re pretending to be clueless about, while counting on that cluelessness from the rest of us.

fisher-studio.com•1 day ago

How is it that they don’t know how a sole proprietor operates either. Wow. These a rich ppl they believe in property?

robaussieresistor2.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Oh!!
It's coming, believe me.

lexcast.bsky.social•1 day ago

If it "had" to built here....with US prices for manufacturing, then Apple would have never bothered to do the R & D and associated engineering in the first place. Why would Apple invest billions to design a phone that NOBODY could afford to buy.

smokeygeo.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you go to the Japanese style memorial by chancellor green you’ll see the name of my classmate Karen klitzmann, who died at her desk at cantor Fitzgerald on 9/11

radiobill.bsky.social•1 day ago

And the hourly wage in China during the iPhone 16 surge was around $3.63

y2skot.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s consistently stupid, I’ll give him that.

stpaulifan80.bsky.social•1 day ago

We should listen to Lutnick because he is an expert in screws…after all, he tried to screw his company’s 9/11 families while the Twin Towers were still smoldering

nutlick.bsky.social•1 day ago

It works on many levels!

julstrangepork.bsky.social•23 hours ago

He is too old and out of touch. Young people are not yearning to work in a factory.

areaman65.bsky.social•23 hours ago

He's 63.

julstrangepork.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Out of touch it is.

annieruby.bsky.social•1 day ago

Unfathomable advancements are being made in the field of "almost getting it then missing so bad you create a new level of wrong"

jk56va.bsky.social•1 day ago

He's a bond salesman. Full stop. No clue about how products are made. Or anything else other than grabbing as much $$ as possible.

rhymeswithmoral.bsky.social•23 hours ago

His job is to sit in the oval office and frontrun the market and become the richest man in the world

davidlewis61.bsky.social•1 day ago

Or, when Democrats are in office, what they say the limits on governmental power are. (And what they really are even now.)

badforbusiness.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ok he doesn’t understand ‘commerce’, but if he knows ‘secretary’ or ‘of’, it’s not a complete shutout.

nichhills.bsky.social•20 hours ago

In this administration, the role of the Secretary of Commerce is to make the Secretary of the Treasury look good.

wearyandangry.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Being wealthy does not always equate to being either intelligent or knowledgeable.

Scott Disick is wealthy, and I wouldn't trust him to run Noah Smith's Rabbit chat.

drunkenlobster.bsky.social•1 day ago

Anakin: And after we raise tariffs, all of those factory jobs like we had in thr 1950s will come back, and generations of men can work there while their wives stay home

Padme: That means we will unionize them and raise their wages right?

Anakin:.....

Padme: Right?

ddurant.bsky.social•23 hours ago

If he actually knew how things worked, Trump would never have hired him.

timmypi.bsky.social•1 day ago

And note, they have a very specific idea of who will be working in these factories (most will be donning red hats on the way to work)

All "No, not me" vibes

marcalyn.bsky.social•1 day ago

two dollars an hour is why. there’s about $40 of labor in a phone. do it here and it will be like $1000 in labor.

notafanoftrump.bsky.social•23 hours ago

For some weird reason, Lutnick likes to keep reminding us that he’s an absolute idiot.

mcmanus.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also if President Bernie Sanders were talking about companies like this and using all these levers of government against private industry every GOPer would be on TV 24/7 screaming COMMUNISM

mcmanus.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also, who are these people who are going to work in these factories? We would either need a massive immigration wave OR any factories that did come here would be dark factories.

kevinmkruse.bsky.social•1 day ago

No, no, ordinary Americans will be VERY excited to give up their laptop job and do some hard honest work of screwing together iPhones for $2.25 an hour and a decent shot at cancer.

mcmanus.bsky.social•1 day ago

I worked in a perfume factory on an assembly line in college. The job was tedious and even for a young guy standing in one spot on concrete for 8-9 hours a night sucks. Met some cool people but would not aspire to do again. At same time had a restaurant job and loved that job way more!

scaggsvillan.bsky.social•1 day ago

i love my job at the triangle shirtwaist factory!

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