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Trump official admits US workers won’t get jobs in factories spurred by tariffs
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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These people are living in a deluded fantasy world. Who's going to pay for all this automation? The same companies that are going to be losing money hand-over-fist, because no one can afford to buy their products anymore? I have no idea why they think putting the economy in a choke hold is going to stimulate this kind of investment.
And if they think robots would be cheaper than human labor at a time when people are struggling to afford basic necessities, then once again these idiots are proving that they don't understand anything about basic economics. Or life, for that matter.
The funny thing about these automated factories is the question, how long it will take to build them and who will build them? How long until the product is done as quickly as cheaply as overseas, without these work robots constantly malfunctioning or needing repairs? There is a reason only certain industries are almost fully automated, it's simply not efficient to use (fairly expensive) robots for everything. You need a product that sells for a lot of money (like cars) for it to create a profit. But what do I know I'm not a billionaire.
As if the countries getting tariff'd don't know anything about automating factory work. It's almost as dumb as when we thought nobody else could come up with competitive AI models and the market crashed when DeepSeek was released.
Workers are getting fucked with more inflation so a handful of billionaires get significant tax breaks. There is no secondary objective.
Because they are idiots, there is no mistery, the mediocres are running the USA
The only question I'm wondering about:
Is Trump just an idiot or Putin's useful idiot? How much of this is sheer stupidity and how much is deliberate chaos controlled by a foreign entity?
The fact that Trump put Tariffs on penguins but not Russians feels telling.
... and it goes to show all the pATriOtISm these assholes and their followers actually hold
I wish it was the mediocre, its being run by the willfully ignorant.
right you are... calling them mediocre is cutting them slack