• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    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.

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        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.

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        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