As someone who has worked in a manufacturing environment, most USians aren't ready for it by any stretch, even if the tariffs succeed in bringing manufacturing back.
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And they're deporting all the immigrants who would take those jobs.
But realistically, if manufacturing actually came back, they'd likely be heavily automated to reduce employee costs.
Automation will be pushed for, but a huge portion of automated machinery comes from China. The US doesn't have the same kind of expansive megafactories needed to meet its own consumption, this will take decades to accomplish even if it works.
Yeah, this whole mess is not well thought out whatsoever.
https://xcancel.com/timeforainews/status/1910626825371365660#m <--- another one. Check out the size of the CPU's.
That one comment about china "being obsessed with how much we eat" as if the Chinese don't have plentiful access to mountains of cheap, high quality, delicious food. It's a real crying wojak cope response.
Americans should be obsessed with how much Chinese people exercise
I'm guessing the Chinese diet doesn't have as much corn syrup in it.
Your "job" won't be anything more complicated than putting screws in the back of iPhones for minimum wage.
No company is going to waste years and billions of dollars building a manufacturing plant in the U.S. if the Dynamite Monkey in Chief can destroy it on a whim.
Is this supposed to be mocking workers? Am I supposed to be angry that Americans would potentially be placed into positions regularly filled by Chinese or other foreign workers?
No humans should toil for a pittance. The fact that we are okay with it when it's overseas is bad enough. The creator of this seems to be telling a cautionary tale but also mocking both the low wage factory jobs and that Americans might be "relegated" to this.
If this thing was created to make people angry, it worked.
I think it was a jab at how slow they are working. If you have ever watched industrial manufacturing they are working super fast compared to this video
It's mocking Trump and MAGA's fantasy. For the workers it's providing them with work that is unpleasant, poorly paid and painful. For the factory owners it is ending up with staff that just aren't going to be productive.
As for toiling for a pittance: Trump is trying to devalue the dollar and erode workers rights in a race to the bottom. Apart from the fact that, as others here have pointed out, the endgame would be automation the intermediary stage is pushing those in precarity and poverty into jobs that don't benefit them in any meaningful way.
But the Chinese, being somewhat keener students of human nature, have distilled those arguments into thirty seconds of comedy gold.
You had me up until "comedy gold."
What's your problem now?
Is this really a Chinese meme? Because it really feels like they are not only dissing the US (fat people) but also themselves (their factoey workers) with it.
The insult isn't directed at factory workers in general, but the concept of the USian proletariat, largely unfamiliar with factory work, trying to reindustrialize.
I've seen one with trump, Elon and Vance operating the machines. Very good
Gotta link to that?
It's on wechat, so sadly no, and I've no idea how to find it either