Media (e.g. CBS) assumes tariffs will be good in the long term

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't have enough manufacturing in this country, especially all along the production chain for all components of a given product. It's not something that can be fixed quickly.

Let’s start with you and your family. Go work at the new factories making tshirts for Target! Maybe Zack Mayo will come and rescue you just like in the movies.

The good thing is you do not need to graduate from college or high school to assemble an iPhone. The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones” coming to the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don't have enough manufacturing in this country, especially all along the production chain for all components of a given product. It's not something that can be fixed quickly.

Let’s start with you and your family. Go work at the new factories making tshirts for Target! Maybe Zack Mayo will come and rescue you just like in the movies.

The good thing is you do not need to graduate from college or high school to assemble an iPhone. The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones” coming to the US.

Even if the manufacturing grows in the US, the jobs will mostly be taken over by machines, not union workers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, as someone who works for a DMV company whose products are manufactured in China, even with the tariffs, it's still cheaper for us to have our product manufactured in China than it was when we manufactured in the US. It's also faster. Let that sink in...it is faster to have products manufactured & shipped to the US from China than it was for us when the products were made in Wisconsin & shipped to the DMV.

The US cannot compete with China in manufacturing unless the US completely guts its regulations. I mean, they're kind of on track to do that - let's be honest - but even then, you have to have a populus willing to work for crap wages, and we don't have that. We don't have a slave labor class in the US. A lot of people like to think the food service industry is made up of slave labor, but they get paid 10000x more than Chinese factory workers. A typical Chinese factory worker makes like $50,000-$60,000 Yuan/year which is just around $6,000-$8,000 USD/yr. PER YEAR. I know someone who only does DoorDash and InstaCart as their jobs and even they make $60k-75k each year depending on how much they want to work.

Are workers in China fairly compensated? How much does the Chinese government take from their workers? Are Chinese manufacturing facilities safe workspaces? Safer than the US? If yes, it isn’t so bad, but if our companies are just exporting worker exploitation then we need to think about what is happening.

Also, is there a stark difference between working conditions in mainland China versus Taiwan?

[Anonymous]

I guess people opposing tariffs just assume we'll never run out of poor people willing to do this on the cheap for us?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don't have enough manufacturing in this country, especially all along the production chain for all components of a given product. It's not something that can be fixed quickly.

Let’s start with you and your family. Go work at the new factories making tshirts for Target! Maybe Zack Mayo will come and rescue you just like in the movies.

The good thing is you do not need to graduate from college or high school to assemble an iPhone. The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones” coming to the US.

Even if the manufacturing grows in the US, the jobs will mostly be taken over by machines, not union workers.

Right now US manufacturers can not fill jobs at plants but by command of Government we will have more factories? Sound like communism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess people opposing tariffs just assume we'll never run out of poor people willing to do this on the cheap for us?

No. High paying white collar jobs will be eliminated forcing those people in to low wage manufacturing jobs. Sound great! Looking forward to the Great Leap Forward! Wonder how big law lawyers will do in the factories?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess people opposing tariffs just assume we'll never run out of poor people willing to do this on the cheap for us?

No. High paying white collar jobs will be eliminated forcing those people in to low wage manufacturing jobs. Sound great! Looking forward to the Great Leap Forward! Wonder how big law lawyers will do in the factories?

Or the fields; that was also an option Mao provided.