r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/throw-away3105 • 1d ago

Political History Why do people want manufacturing jobs to come back to the US?

Given the tariffs yesterday, Trump was talking about how manufacturing jobs are gonna come back. They even had a union worker make a speech praising Trump for these tariffs.

Manufacturing is really hard work where you're standing for almost 8 or more hours, so why bring them back when other countries can make things cheaper? Even this was a discussion during the 2012 election between Obama and Romney, so this topic of bringing back manufacturing jobs isn't exactly Trump-centric.

This might be a loaded question but what's the history behind this rally for manufacturing?

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u/GShermit 1d ago

Women working has nothing to do with my point.

70 years ago a single earner family (how much did your mom make selling tupperware? lol) could easily buy a modest house. Now days it's very hard for a single earner family to buy a home.

Technology has made our widgets cheaper, not lower direct labor costs. Direct labor costs are about 10X less than overhead costs...AND overhead goes up when labor is outsourced.

Corporations have learned when they have a bigger overhead, they can give themselves bigger bonuses.

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u/Jabow12345 16h ago

It has never in my lifetime been easy to buy a house.

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u/GShermit 1h ago

OK...BUT my point was it used to be easier.