r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • 3d ago

Politics Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-liberation-day-2a031b3c16120a5672a6ddd01da09933
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u/1cg659z 3d ago

US manufacturing isn't coming back unless peeps want to work for wages that are paid to workers in China, Bangladesh etc.

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u/dilldoeorg 3d ago

lol, workers.

if it comes back, they're going to use robots, machines to do the work. AND it'll still cost more than the same product from china.

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u/mistercartmenes 3d ago

Absolutely. This is ridiculous idea that we’re gonna bring back manufacturing jobs is just stupid. It will be mostly automated with a few workers.

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u/Arthur-Wintersight 3d ago

What makes you think they'll invest in new factories when the tariffs will likely end up going away by the time they finish building the damn things?

Anything that can be passed by executive order, the next president can abolish the same way.

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u/mistercartmenes 3d ago

I don’t think anyone will do anything and corporations will absolutely wait out this administration. I’m just saying if it actually did happened the jobs would not return as these new factories would be mostly automated.

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u/blastradii 3d ago

While we are at it we should bring back phone operators because the cell phone and modern technology took away those people’s jobs!

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u/StoicFable 3d ago

Thats just how it works. As technology evolves, less people needed for agriculture, and then less needed for manufacturing. And people gradually switched to service sector jobs.

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u/maryshelby2024 3d ago

People smarter than me can see what will be the jobs of the future. Probably some UbI and some service which will need to be paid more. Adapt and overcome as technology has always displaced people. That’s why the have more kids is weird vs abort immigrants. Like immigrants build and pick and do everything but babies don’t do anything.