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time to get out

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The whole plan was to move production back to the US. The thing though is, that you can't make Americans sit and sew Jeans that sell sell for $15 or assemble electronics for $6/hr
Maybe you could 100 years ago, but there is s a reason why we trade across the world and its not because we are kind. It is because it makes companies more money.
This will be mostly messy for the US. The rest of the world now has tarrifs on the US. But US now has tarrifs on the whole world. Any other country can look into expanding in new markets now, but the US has shut all its doors
- Yeah we can't make everything.
  Not only do most of those low level factory jobs suck we simply don't have the workers, we're at less than 5% unemployment.
  
  we're at less than 5% unemployment
  So far
  
  Queue the prison labor
  
  Time to get more black people arrested
  
  I'm sure that was somewhere in the project 2025 playbook
  
  *Cue
  
  Not if we're putting them in line to work...
  
  Nor does the US need to make everything.
  The US is a service economy. It makes money through capital and intellectual property. Being the first to innovate means also having the opportunity to wedge yourself as a permanent middle man and charge people around the world to pass go.
  Think Uber eats for example. If I order food in Toronto from a Toronto based restaurant fulfilled by a courier in Toronto, 30% of my payment is going to them in silicon valley for managing that order.
  Similarly, when you purchase an app on Google or Apple store, they are collecting 30%.
  If I am in Norway purchasing a game on Steam from a Norwegian developer, you guessed it, 30% is going to Steam.
  This is America's strength now, not making t shirts, shoes or cars entirely domesticallty.
  Most of the world was ok with paying the markup for convenience.
  Since the US have gone rogue, many are calling for an end for respect to US intellectual property. Perhaps each country should have its own Uber, app store etc so that the cut can stay within our borders.
  One case: Uber was charging 30% commission for managing rickshaw rides in India (a country with relatively low purchasing power per capita).
  It was only after domestic options like Rapido or Namma Yatri undercut them that they moved to a subscription based model, charging drivers 20 to 40 rupees daily, rather than taking an exorbitant commission of 30% per ride. To India's credit, it has a robust IT sector located in one of its major cities (Bangalore) which helps promote competition in this case.
  
  we simply don't have the workers
  And the US is deporting a lot of it's workforce for not being white enough.
- you can't make Americans sit and sew Jeans
  You can with
  🌈🦄 ✨ slavery ✨🦄 🌈
- This is the thing that makes no sense. All the thinking stops at bring jobs back to the US.
  Okay, raw material issues aside, what are these jobs?
  They are jobs that left because it was so cheap to do it overseas that it still makes financial sense to ship the product here after it's made.
  NOONE IN THE US IS DOING THAT JOB FOR THAT MONEY HERE.
  
  My Trump voting uncle had nothing to say when he was talking about how all the jobs were going to come back to the USA and I asked him if he wants him or any of his kids picking peaches in California for $7.50 an hour. Who exactly does he think will do these jobs when all the immigrants who are trying to establish themselves here are gone? He did not surrender the point being a good MAGAt but you can tell he had not thought about it in the slightest.
- We could theoretically figure out some way to do it with automation. The problem is it would take a decade to figure out and there's zero chance these tariffs last that long.
  
  AI will make it come true, promised! (/s, just in case)
  
  AI told me I could solve all this with AI
- Oh they know that Americans won't work at factories. That's not their goal.
  They want to bring manufacturing back the the US, it just won't be humans doing the manufacturing, it will be robots.
  
  There is a reason why this is not the case already. It's more expensive.
  
  Not if you have prison labor. Then robots are less needed just jail more peeps and send em to the new gulags.
  
  If you jail the robots then you don't have to pay them either.
- The whole plan
  "Plan" is a strong word to use for this.
- You can make Americans design and watch a machine that sews $15 jeans. But tariffs won't help with that if all the machine parts are more expensive too.

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