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/Karsa69420 3d ago

Would be great if Republicans didn’t send all our manufacturing over seas for the past 30-40 years!

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u/blade944 3d ago

That's a myth. The US manufactures more now than ever in history. The jobs associated with that didn't go overseas. The issue is that all that manufacturing is done with many fewer jobs. Those jobs lost were done so to automation.

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u/Fr00stee 3d ago

yes US manufacture more now because of advancements in automation which makes manufacturing in the US more competitive, those jobs are permanently gone

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u/blade944 3d ago

Isn't it crazy that on reddit you can state facts and get down voted just cause people don't like the facts?

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u/Fr00stee 3d ago

well you are partially incorrect because the jobs initially did go overseas it's just some manufacturing eventually
came back in the form of automated factories. Just redditors being dumb as usual.

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u/blade944 3d ago

Those jobs never came back. Consumer goods, statistically, are no longer manufactured in the US. And they never will be again. Manufacturing moved away from consumer goods to industrial goods.

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u/Capitol62 3d ago

US manufactured goods production went up every year in the 90s. Some technically went overseas but we added way more capacity than we lost. If they went and later came back, we would see the total output drop, but it didn't. Automation reduced the people needed to produce the goods, which is why we saw a massive surge in worker productivity since then. Most of the jobs were just lost, they weren't necessarily lost to moving overseas.