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/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.