U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids
U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids
“This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29037456
I feel like this is relevant to the sub. If not, feel free to remove.
And "rest of your life" means you dying from work related health issues at fifty, of course.
If you make it there; you won't have a union and labor protections will be struck down in kangaroo courts, OSHA safety requirements being insufficient or insufficiently enforced were already a main driver of people not wanting to work these kobs--and that was before the current and future dismantling of OSHA related rules.
Also, how are you going to get 90k when federal minimum wage is what is was in 2009? Many of the southern states have even passed "counter-wage" laws forbidding the state from passing it's own improved min wage law--truly hateful of the average person.
And the economy is planned for 5 years at a time to keep those jobs this stable, yes?
Each time this guy opens his trap, he proves that when you hire clowns, you get a circus.
He is the proof, that time travel is real. They got a feudal lord from the middle ages to cosplay as that guy.
You keep hearing some members of this administration talk about automation and robots for factory jobs, and also AI for office jobs. If the press were at all smart they would continually ask these morons to keep explaining this contradiction. But I would love hear what they think will happen if everyone in the country loses their job. It's not going to be good for the %.01 either.
Oh yeah, only right wing brown-nosers have White House press credentials anymore.
I see these MAGA morons getting excited about the return of high-paying manufacturing jobs, because they have absolutely no Critical Thinking Skills, and they haven't asked themselves the most basic question - if corporations have the opportunity to rebuild the manufacturing base in America, why would they recreate the model that sent manufacturing overseas in the first place? Wouldn't they use this unique opportunity to create an entirely new model? And would that model benefit the workers, or the corporation?
The simple facts are, there will be two models in the new American manufacturing environment. The first will be factories that will rely heavily on automation/ robotics, and need very few humans. The second will be modeled after Asian sweatshops, with low pay, no benefits, forced overtime with no OT pay, child/teen labor, no health/safety/environmental regulations, etc.
The MAGA Nazis know this, but they are still selling the fantasy of high-paying factory jobs that even a stupid MAGA can do. I get that, they are disengenuous to the core, but why aren't Dems or the media screaming about this, and asking MAGA Nazis in every interview?
Nothing you tell a MAGA, that doesn't sound like you worship their dear leader, will sink into their thick skulls.
They could literally be chained to a sewing machine working the 95th hour that week, paid $1 per hour and they would still claim they were winning (or at least owning the libs).
I see these MAGA morons getting excited about the return of high-paying manufacturing jobs, because they have absolutely no Critical Thinking Skills
No, most have never worked an actual manufacturing, or trade job in their lives, and the ones who have want to distance themselves from that embarrassing "Peasant Work" episode at all costs.
Think I'll pass, bud. I've read The Jungle, I know how this ends.
These people live in the delusion of the 1950's being a Golden Utopia of America. Minorities knew their place, gays stayed in Narnia, women kept their mouths shut and stayed in the kitchen, kids were mindless obedient extensions of their fathers, and everything was just... Perfect.
Except for the high income taxes. Fuck that.
It's been clear from the start that they only want to make things 'great' for greedy cunts.
Yep.
You're right about them wanting to go back to the 50s, but I'm not sure it isn't the 1850s or even the 1750s..
"It's the 50's somewhere! Gimme a cold beer, bro!"
Children make good factory slaves. Now I understand why they got rid of the department of education.
The traditional education system was actually designed specifically to prepare children for factory work. Enforce strict schedules, you arrive when we tell you, you eat when we tell you, you pee when we tell you, you leave when we tell you. The bell is king, and determines your whole day. Deviation from the bell’s schedule is to be punished and ridiculed.
It sounds like hyperbole, but modern education is literally based on the schools that factory owners set up for their workers’ kids, to groom the kids to work in the factory when they were old enough.
The factory owners just copied that from the Prussian model that was meant to train children to be good soldiers. Not that that was any better...
Brainwash them from childhood that it's "Normal," and most will never think it's not.
From age six until you drop dead. No schools required, whatever you need to do this job you will learn on the job.
They're still so certain we're having grandkids... Who's gonna tell them?
It might not be you, but it will be children having children with abortion bans and lack of sex education.
The worst job I ever had had was right after I got out of the military and went home. I needed a job and a buddy of mine worked in a place that made custom logo hats and jackets for various businesses. His job was to ship the finished products out. The job I got was on the floor sewing the little cardboard backing that the hat bill is sewn onto. I did this for a summer in an unair-conditioned room full of mostly older Asian women that were quite demanding about quality control. The repetitiveness of it was truly maddening.
The reason Trumps idea appeals to people for those unaware is that free trade destroyed a lot of union jobs, which were outsourced to emerging markets. After the industrial revolution unions fought for worker rights and salaries, and they were then shipped away to places that didnt have those rights, and they want to see a reversal of this.
Not sure if its right or wrong, but you cant fault them for holding out hope, its actually a left wing ideal I would say, large government protectionism interfering in the free market. Saying that all factory jobs are bad is a silly retort, there are many factory jobs in the US already that people are happy to have; even ASML making advanced semiconductor fabs is a "factory job".
Saying that all factory jobs are bad is a silly retort,
Who's saying that?
For life? Someone is delusional.
Maybe for 5 years, at most. Humans need food. Humans need breaks. Automated assembly machines? 24/7 production, no annual leave, no insurance plans, and no unionizing.
The up-front cost is much higher, but it's cheaper in the long run. Good luck keeping that factory job long enough to have kids, let alone pass it down to them.
We'll, the article was about the jobs maintaining the robots, not humans building stuff in factories.
Well, that's on me for only reading the summary posted here.
these idiots have been so spoonfed that they've mentally swapped factory jobs and union jobs, and think it's the factory bringing good conditions and satisfying work
Precisely.
I actually don't want to work at a factory. I want robots to do that for me and I want the products to be cheap so I can buy cool stuff to do more interesting things.
Like I don't want to weld parts and stuff, I want to make lasers from those parts.
I don't want to melt glass. I want to use lenses to make images.
I don't want to dig for shit. I want to use that stuff to make rocket fuel.
We don't want factory jobs. We want technology jobs.
If you are clever enough for that creative work, why don't you use that creativity to make those jobs?
The uncomfortable problem is that manufacturing jobs dind't move to China for the cheap workers but for the cheap engineers and managers who run the factories.
Production won't come back because there are not enough clever people in the USA.
And you, your kids and your grandkids will all work in the factory for minimum wage at the same time! A real family affair, whether you're an 80 year old or a 12 year old, there's factory work there for you!
I guess, since they're
careersjobs for life, they're also saying that recessions like the one they're triggering right now will never happen again, because layoffs aren't going to be a thing. So that's.... um.... an interesting empty promise, anyways.Wow the AI meme from earlier this week, with the humans inside and the robots painting and doing creative work, it became too real
Hey, knowing the means of production in and out will be pretty valuable once the working class also own it.
He doesn't mean after they graduate high school, he means as soon as they can walk.
America was isolated from WW2 and joined at the end on their terms and for their benefit thanks to their location/geography. America will easily self-isolate and go full V for Vendetta (white [Germanic? Anglo Saxon? I feel like Germanic covers both] ethnonationalism, as usual) until it eventually balkanizes.
But Americans are honestly the dumbest people I've ever met, seeming almost challenged in their happy ignorance, so what can Americans by themselves do against their owners and through hardship? Israelis bomb Palestine through Ramadan and the communities still break their fast together in the rubble of their homes; Americans can't afford something they've been advertised but definitely don't need and will start selling drugs, their bodies (OF has made it easier than ever too!) and, finally, their souls. I can't see them doing anything besides murdering when they have the upper hand and assenting in fear when they don't, and I definitely don't see them getting together productively.
America was isolated from WW2 and joined at the end on their terms and for their benefit thanks to their location/geography.
That was WWI, they were in WWII from the start.
Lol the factories have been neglected for so long they aren't gonna be there.
Why would he say this out loud? Are they so out of touch that they think we will welcome this?
Or is it just arrogance at this point?
A good portion of their base will probably gobble this up because they're still in a bad place after the factory closed down and put the town out of work.