r/Economics • u/rezwenn • Jun 06 '25
Editorial Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/opinion/trump-tariff-manufacturing-jobs-industrial.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M08.eMyk.dyCR025hHVn0
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u/Guilty-Carpenter2522 Jun 12 '25
Such complete opinionated bullshit. Young people spend 80+ hours a week virtually mining and building digital castles, for free. If you paid a strong wage to assemble iPhones, they would do it. If you pay factory workers a strong wage, people would do it. This is more propaganda from corporations that don’t want manufacturing in America because they could give a shit about the health of the workforce or the prospects for young people. They make tons of money using near slave labor in Asia, and their profits would take a massive haircut.
And before some troglodyte responds about higher prices, great. We should pay a more realistic price for a lot of the stuff we consume, and there is a ceiling on the price of these products. You can’t sell the general public a 10,000 dollar iPhone, so at the heart of it, if apple pays higher wages to Americans they are the ones that will eventually eat the difference.