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54 sats \ 3 replies \ @028559d218 22h
The administration is incapable of differentiating between... manufacturing output and manufacturing employment.
Output has been going up and up... until around 2018 when it peaked.
I wish someone would ask the administration 'hey so if we have a factory with ALL robots'... that produces tons of stuff but with few workers is that what we want?
They never say if 'bringing back manufacturing' refers to people or just making stuff because one doesn't necessarily mean the other.
The other thing they never say is if the new 'manufacturing jobs' pay well. For it to pay well, workers need training and lots of it and... where is it?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 17h
China leads the world in robotics by a huge margin - they can build them far far far cheaper than the US can.
When China is automating manufacturing anyone who wants to compete must also- especially when US wages are still far higher than Chinese wages.
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7 sats \ 1 reply \ @028559d218 17h
tell that to the trump administration. they seem to think that manufacturing... is basically the same as it was in the 1960s
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 17h
Yes hard to know the logic behind what they are doing unless preparing for war and needing to reduce dependence upon Chinese dominated supply chains.
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21 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 22h
Manufacturing really never went away, but manufacturing jobs did.
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25 sats \ 4 replies \ @carter OP 22h
Yeah US labor is like the most expensive input so we offset with capital expenditure
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 21h
Tax cuts and deregulation could help on that front. We'll see what they do.
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25 sats \ 2 replies \ @carter OP 21h
I saw some commentators today say the only thing they can think is trump wants to lower us wages so we can be completive with our manufacturing...
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 21h
Dumping a bunch of federal workers into the labor force will help with that.
So would the grand plan of replacing income/payroll taxes with excise taxes (this would actually lower the cost of labor, more so than wages).
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26 sats \ 0 replies \ @carter OP 19h
I believe it when I see it
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @itsrealfake 23h
probably worth controlling for inflation in those numbers
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @carter OP 23h
It says adjusted for inflation
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 23h
omg, whoops
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 15h
Never went away, just used fewer/different workers.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 17h
Yes but compared to China, USA has been falling behind on a massive scale- see this graph for the evidence-
https://unctad.org/topic/trade-analysis/chart-10-may-2021
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 17h
easier for politicians to ride on the waves of what was already destined. reversing the trends is extremely hard, that's accomplished over many decades... tho recently the mind control has been quite successful from switching up agendas.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @022fbc9cef 21h
It is good to have manufacturing, but it is not good to have manufacturing jobs. Who would like to work a manufacturing job here, guys?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 23h
Very interesting
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