Another one for the “economic concerns as a mask for cultural concerns” file. This delusion that manufacturing jobs will come roaring back if we cast the right policy spell isn’t really about that being a desirable economic goal, but about romanticizing Manly Work.
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The worst part of this is that even if manufacturing jobs came back because of this (they won’t)
and even if Americans retooled for those jobs (they won’t) those jobs sucked! It’s like demanding to return to being a farming society. People fled that life the instant they could, in the millions!
and even if Americans retooled for those jobs (they won’t) those jobs sucked! It’s like demanding to return to being a farming society. People fled that life the instant they could, in the millions!
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Right?
lol
That means the USA can't produce (much) more, and this will just lead to incredible inflation.
Construction is notoriously feast or famine, they do not teach business cycle of the sector economics to young engineers and they are devastated when there’s a downturn.
Back in the day, we paid our mortgage ahead 6 months as a cushion.
Plus, policy is hard. Let's just blow everything up and let the free market fairies rebuild American manufacturing. Right? Right?
So that it never ends.
https://bsky.app/profile/normative.bsky.social/post/3llw4ojihrc2o
It's not coming back folks!
Over time, they overcharged, lost business to lower cost bottle caps from Mexico.
It’s generational reality. The owner’s kid has a place up the hill. He may still own a piece of the bottle cap action.
14K jobs in Wisconsin that the 'Art of the Deal' dealmaker fucked up?
https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3llwgzq3xe22e
Constitutionally, Congress NEVER intended to delegate the power to the President to tax us in a magnitude on par with the entire federal budget.
Related, I work for a large consumer goods company with multiple plants and distribution centers in the US. Both of those types of sites are very automated now. The pickers are robots. The lines can make, pack, and ship a pallet of goods that are first touched by a human when shelved.
Win, crush them, kill them. Then solve the problems.
This is not about bringing good jobs back. Those are gone. It's about the 1% sucking up more assets, cheaply.
But for some reason they just want to destroy this country instead.
But, of course, these are legacy plants - corporate wants cheap labor.
I did.
And, yeah, the money was good (at the time) but it was also the most mind numbing and boring work I’ve ever done. That doesn’t make it bad, but it’s not something to romanticize.
Where are we getting all of these workers when our fertility rate, especially white women, is falling every year below replacement level.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/08/lasses-jobs-replacing-industry-led-brexit-vote-hartlepool-clergyman-graeme-buttery
No, those jobs are for the "other people."