MAKE TEXTILE SWEATSHOPS IN AMERICA AGAIN

MAKE TEXTILE SWEATSHOPS IN AMERICA AGAIN

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Cool thread rajeet but if the value of purchasing power of $1.20/hr in the future is the equivalent of $35/hr that means we won......hard

yes actually i would rather have american sweatshops than indian sweatshops

It’ll be tough but imagine a world free of exploitation that’s based nobody will have a reason to hate us anymore

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The point of tariffs is to make it competitive to pay Americans a living wage again, dumbfuck.

Yeah because then I might actually have some confidence that what I'm buying won't fall apart in ten minutes

Textile refers to clothing not shoes

So, what, they're pro-sweatshop?
I thought we were the badguys, are we not the badguys?
Are the nazi's the good guys?
Shit, unironically I think the nazis are and always were the good guys.

heh, I'd like to see americans do the necessary job of being a child slave in a third world sweat shop!

so leftists are now pro-slavery, both domestically and abroad?

let the delusion flow.

children would learn more in a sweatshop or coal mine than they ever would in some faggoty classroom

Most Americans aren’t white

Consumers will either pay tariffs, buy American, or do without

But since they're all one-off purchases it won't break anyone

Stonetoss should get royalties for every time this comic btfo of yet another member of the lefty spreadsheet and twitter elite.

We could have used the electricity involved in the posting and viewing of it to power several hospitals worth of healthcare by this point.

Trump's treasury secretary worked for George Soros.
Can't trump see that he's being sabotaged by Soros? Why would he hire someone like that?

if we become china during the 90s we won

consider you may be in a cult

Nike sneakers already sell for $100 or more, you could make them in any country and still turn a profit.

The point of tariffs is to make it competitive to pay Americans a living wage

Guess what? It won't work at all. Tariffs are not magic. They will raise prices on goods and that will be all of the effect. Laborers in manufacturing will be paid shit, as they always were. Tariffs would work if USA had more folks than jobs, but now it have more jobs than people o tarries can at best move people from profitable industry to not profitable shit industry that is subsidized by tariffs.

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Do these people really believe that anyone in the first world would work for 1.5$/hr? Extinction can't come soon enough.

consider you may be in a cult

Very overused brainrot.

Get to work, Tyrone. No more gibs
Also what are unions

That's unironically the plan. Trump is killing the middle class with death by tariff

Yes and that is delusional

More jobs than people creates an upward pressure on wages you dumb fuck

Cute! Do you have more sea lions videos?

They will raise prices on goods and that will be all of the effect

People don’t buy those goods because the price is too high

Factory making good moves to America or people buy the cheaper goods

This is the idea.

I LOVE SLAVERY

I THINK IT’S GOOD WE EXPLOIT ASIANS

Disgusting take

Goyim dogs have had it too good for too long. That age is over. Now is America returning to its roots - a slave colony.
I'll still have free health care and college while you're dying in Iran or working in a factory for $4 an hour kek. Euro socialism wins again.

OP is unaware of advanced robotics. In the US making nike sneakers will be jobs for people with advanced degrees and trades tickets. They will make shoes far cheaper and far more superior in quality to a rice farmer's wife on 6 hours sleep being paid a bowl of rice per 16 hour day.

Why does OP glow?

Niggers don't have $500 for them Air Jordan's made in Ohio. Maybe give out $5 million in reparations to each nigger.

In the US making nike sneakers will be jobs for people with advanced degrees and trades tickets.

Yes, because everybody has an advanced degrees in robotics.
Oh wait, a lot of them are H1B indians.
Hmmm...

I swear these people are retarded.

Tariffs are not magic.

They absolutely are.

Exactly. People who make shoes. Are FUCKING PATHETIC

Tariffs are not magic.

To normies they may as well be.

TARIFFS AMERICA INFLICTS ON OTHER COUNTRIES IS BAD FOR AMERICA

TARIFFS OTHER COUNTRIES INFLICT ON AMERICA IS ALSO BAD FOR AMERICA

The Chinese boil eggs in the piss of virgin boys.

oh yeah because you buy shoes so often that you will notice even 200% mark up

Why do we assume that 200 dollar shoes have to assembled for 1.50 an hour by hand?
Why do we assume we need to use the shittiest sweat shops?

Nike only spends 16 bucks per pair of shoes, and they sell for 60-120 on average, and up to 200.
The average worker produces 3 pairs of shoes an hour.
48 in costs, 192 in profit. Take 42 bucks out of that profit, pay the worker, now they make 150 in profit, and you've created a job that pays 42 an hour, full time, you now have a job that pays 80K while still retaining a 60% profit margin. They can then go home and buy nikes for themselves and their family, in 3 hours they can afford a pair, in two days labor they can buy their whole family shoes.

Why would a company lower their profit margins for something nebulous like "America First", instead of following the logic of the market and shareholders?

People with more disposable income can buy more things and make line go up more. At least that's what Ford said until The Dodge Brothers declared it illegal to pay your workers first so they stay loyal and can afford your own products.

And why would them lower profit margin ? Burger Coomsumer will just coomsum on credit anyway

Without slaves, who would do all the work?

Without immigrants, who would do all the work?

The left is beyond retarded to think this is a noble cause

robots doesnt exists

I would rather buy $200 made in US shoes than $170 chink-made Nikes.

I can’t believe people as low IQ as this anon was allowed to vote and destroy this country

Literally any type of labor that isn't a CEO

^is this slavery?

it's truly spectacular how the mind of a migger works. these "people" should be closely examined and studied.

It will actually be 15 to 25 an hour which is still bad

untargeted tariffs were pretty retarded, yeah.
there are areas where a tariff with some prior preparation will benefit you long term - shit like semi conductors, the chemical industry in general and so on.
but with blanket tariffs, you also hit all the products you wouldn't actually want to move to your country, cannot move to your country short term because of the complexity of production, or cannot move to your country at all because you don't have the resources.
you really wanna produce brooms or tshirts in your country? kek, why. it's only profitable if you can exploit slave labor, just leave that shit to some third world country while you focus on more profitable fields

What the fuck kind of shoe is that? Is it for Sideshow Bob?

Why libtards are so much pro slavery. It looks like they want everyone to work for peanuts. They want immigrants because they are cheap labour. They want oversee workers to work for $1.5 an hours.
They should not beat around the bush and just should bring back slavery again

AI Slopkears

A lot of words to just say let the slaves do it.

Mexico can takeover the chink sweatshop shit. It will stabilize Mexico and provide jobs. Trump proving he’s a genius once again europoors, asians and trannies keep seethin’

VPN off, McCleetus

It's cute how people who have never worked a day in their worthless lives think that a modern textile factory is something from a Dickens novel and not pic related.
What do you guys expect the average salary is for the people who design and implement these automated assembly lines? How much do you figure the maintenance guy bills per hour to get that back going if there is a fault?
Why are so many memeflags so outraged about us bringing industry back to the USA?

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FUCK BILLIONAIRES

FUCK THEM

PAY A LIVING WAGE

actually slavery is dope

lol

As a gay liberal, I really strongly support foreign child labor. These chuddies just don’t know how good we had it! Fuck those little chink bug kids

workers of the world unite!

but slave labor with suicide nets is actually good!

This has to be a joke. That's the one thing niggers absolutely have money for.

I don’t know about them, but having the entire industry managed and ran by h1b jeets and their nepotism isn’t going to be fun for anyone

Keep in mind that there are already hundreds of companies that pay shit wages in USA. Amazon, Walmart, McDonalds etc, all pay low salaries.
I did some research, around 50 or so million Americans work shit jobs like cashier, waiter, janitor etc.

'Brookings Institution (2018): 47.7 million U.S. workers were in occupations with a median wage of less than $15 per hou'r'

Modern shoe factories definitely don't create tech jobs for programmers and engineers!

Orange man bad!!!!

How far removed are any of you faggots from having seen how things actually get produced?

I CANT WAIT TO SEE MAGATS ENSLAVED TO MAKE MY PHONES LIKE THE RANDOM BROWN ASIAN RIVER KIDS THAT'VE BEEN MAKING THEM MY ENTIRE LIFE

THE THOUGHT OF MAGATS ENSLAVED, ENCHAINED, ENTOMED WITHIN MY FACTORY TO MAKE BUDGET PHONES UNTIL THEY DIE MAKES MY BONE SWELL WITH BLOOD

WE MUST KILL AND EAT ANYONE WHO WOULD THWART THE LIBERATION OF SWEATSHOP BUGS DIE FOR MY IPHONE SWEEITIES

NOOOOOO stop talking! Don't you want to just receive "free" shit in the return for doing nothing, right? Just sit back down and relax and watch some TV. Don't worry I care about your financial well being look how polite I am being to you.

why would mexico do that ? how does that work with the Trump tariffs I don't get it

These are the top 5 companies that have “shit jobs” and pay “shit salaries” (by scale and reputation):

1. Walmart
Employees (U.S.): ~1.6 million

Typical Jobs: Cashiers, stockers, janitors, greeters

Pay: Around $14–$17/hour, many roles near minimum wage

Why it's here: Largest private employer in the U.S., long criticized for low pay, inconsistent hours, and reliance on government benefits by workers.

2. Amazon
Employees (U.S.): ~1 million

Typical Jobs: Warehouse pickers, packers, delivery drivers

Pay: Starts around $17/hour (varies), but the jobs are physically brutal

Why it's here: Fast-paced, high injury rates, and robotic-level expectations. Pay is better than some, but the work conditions are often called "soul-crushing."

3. McDonald’s
Employees (U.S.): ~150,000 at corporate-owned locations (plus hundreds of thousands more in franchises)

Typical Jobs: Fry cooks, cashiers, drive-thru staff, janitors

Pay: Average ~$10–$12/hour (some as low as $8)

Why it's here: Known globally for low wages, high turnover, and offering little upward mobility.

4. Kroger
Employees (U.S.): ~465,000

Typical Jobs: Grocery clerks, cashiers, deli staff, janitors

Pay: Around $12–$16/hour, depending on role and union status

Why it's here: Despite being a massive grocery chain, many workers report poor scheduling, stagnant pay, and being overworked.

5. Yum! Brands (Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut)
Employees (U.S.): ~40,000 (corporate, not including all franchises)

Typical Jobs: Cooks, cashiers, prep workers, cleaning staff

Pay: ~$8–$13/hour

Why it's here: Fast food with fast burnout. High stress, low pay, and minimal benefits for the vast majority of frontline workers.

They call us racist but they're the ones obsessed with having other races work in sweatshops.

Cut off illegals from money, now they have to go back to work in the sweatshops they escaped from or go back the fuck home.

I'm a gay liberal!

I'm a concern troll

Why do you losers imagine that a modern factory is something out of a Dickens novel? Have you ever held a job? Have you ever tried to look for a job?

why would fat old people have that job and not teenagers?

With all those jobs you can slack off. On an assembly line, you can't. If Trump destroys our economy and turns us all into factory slaves many will be forced to vote Democrat for the simple reason of self-preservation.

That said, I am a Christian and loyal to the party as the Democrats are satanic child-molesters who must be stopped at all costs. But this is quite an unnecessary and destructive cost to bear.

What

do

you

do

for

work?

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Just fucking use AI and automate the industry like a regular corporate shitstain
Problem fucking solved

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With all those jobs you can slack off. On an assembly line, you can't.

Damn right you can't, bitch.

Wageslavery is cool

That’s very leftist of you. Very social am I right? Maybe we need come to terms that all western countries have been living over their terms for far too long

Niggers don't have $500 for them Air Jordan's made in Ohio.

You think they're buying them now? That's not what's happening.
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Hey retard.
SHIPPING COSTS.
If you don't make the shit everywhere you don't have to send it across the ocean 10 times.

factory slaves

Where do you fucking children get your ideas of what a modern factory is like?

talmudvision

You really can't slack of as a cashier or waiter or at fast food.
For janitors or Shelf stockers and other, well, it depens on day and managment.

Also, factory job is broad term. There are factory jobs where american workers package meat or whatever.
I think food related factory job is probably the lowest paid and worst factory job imaginable. Basically, every retail/shopping related job is shit.
Doesn't mater if factory, shelf stocking, cashier or courier

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are factories bad and that's why they gotta be swept off to 3rd world countries? you fucking faggots have no toughts not principles of your own, all you do is parrot points against anything maga cunts do just to reinforce your fake political faccade identity, you don't actually give a shit about tariffs nor any other shit meant for actual business owners and capitalists. everything you claim you stand is contradictory and you have as much spine as you have testicles

In an ideal world they would because the executives and shareholders would be taken out to the back of the building and shot if they do not comply.

The only people who'd accept those gigs are illegals.

Americans would rather be unemployed and collect food stamps or work any other job or simply choose homelessness as opposed to working for $2/hour.

Manufacturing requires cheap labor to produce affordable goods. The labor has to be so cheap it's below a 1st world country's minimum wage. Thus why China and India dominate. Huge populations ripe for exploitation.

>MAGA crowd
nope

millions of niggers on welfare

sure

Manufacturing requires cheap labor to produce affordable goods.

It worked in the 1950s in the US because US was the only industrialized country not destroyed by the war.

god forbid the job not be done for slave wages at all

P.S. I'm a leftist

this argument makes no fucking sense what is the deal with these idiots

but who will pick the cotton?

How do leftists suddenly gleefully defend the labor condition of sweatshops in the first world. It's a cruel system that needs to go.

That's against the constoootion

luckily raw materials have the innate ability to magically teleport around
otherwise you'd sound pretty fucking stupid right now

If a job cannot be done unless you pay a person less than a living wage in a first world country, the job should either not exist or the owners should be forced through threats of physical violence to lower their profit margins until such a wage can be paid.

The only people who'd accept those gigs are illegals.

Yes, I imagine Jose and Guadalupe are going to be designing, installing, programming, and maintaining these modern shoe factories.

New Balance exists and they are made in America

By googling "Nike's factory in Asia"

While specific Nike factory worker salaries in China for 2025 are difficult to pinpoint, expect average monthly salaries to be in the range of $370-$1430 USD, with some cities like Shanghai having higher minimum wages.

1430 USD for 240 hours of labor is $6 USD an hour for the higher paid factory workers.

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I don’t care.

Manufacturing requires cheap labor to produce affordable goods.

This is super complex issue.
There are actually quite a lot of manufacturing jobs in the west + frens like Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and their products are affordable. Like cars and electronics.

In reality, the middle man, the retail, is the villain here who takes the biggest cut. That's why, for example, shoes, cost 1 dollar to make and are sold much more expensive.

I cant survive on that; gas costs $3.00 and I need one tank a week to relocate back and fourth from work which is beyond even biking range
one trip to the store costs 20-25 dollars for portions for me for about 3 days
at those wages I'd be working and still going negative. I need 75 other white niggers to come live at my house to split income costs like the riverpeople are doing

This. Trump is fucking retarded.

This. No suicide nets, a better wage than you’d get at Dollar General, and rivers free of industrial pollution? Apparently NOT WORTH IT. We need all that stuff so we can focus on…. Uh… finance?

Doctor, I'm sorry. The tests indicate profound mental retardation. We keep trying to communicate, but the boy seems to be locked into his own private fantasy world

or they can just replace you with a 3rd worlder like they've been doing for the past 40 years?

entire industries outsourced while millions of nonwhites are forced in

leftists are now supporting basically slave labor

Huh, didn't see that coming. Wait, yes I did.

New balance made in USA is $200
Hoka made in SEA/China is $150

Why would a company lower their profit margins for something nebulous like "America First",

because that how it was 50 years ago when whites weren't shit on by jews in USA and around the world

you're probably new to this world

That argument only works if you're not flooding the country with immigrants (inb4 it's ok because zognald is doing it LEGALLY).

>Manufacturing requires cheap labor

Yeah, let me just pay Jose and Carlos minimum wage to program my automated assembly line.

Why did it change? Because labour costs got more expensive, while technology for moving and shipping got cheaper.

Well ideally our government would enforce a policy that no product could be sold within the country, period, unless all workers involved in making that product were paid a wage up to our standards, no matter where in the world those workers are. We need a government that is wholly in support of whatever policies stop all outsourcing in its tracks.

For me it’s 5’3” and an attitude.

yeah he is jewish what'd you expect, al qaeda and the others warned you about them controlling everything and they told you that we hated christhianity when in reality it's only the jews

maybe they will use 3d printing

What do you do for work, comrade? How much wage do you earn now and at what wage point would you die from lack of wage?

robots made in China

ok but you're not making those robots

Still buying the automation delusional huh? Don't you know meat golems are self replicating, do there own maintenance, and are fun to abuse?

Nigger all those universities are public universities. your map sucks

Why did it change? Because labour costs got more expensive, while technology for moving and shipping got cheaper.

Hows the royal navy doing these days? Hope you're still growing.

Impressive. You took an easily defensible position (Trump's tariffs are stupid) and managed to come off as even more retarded than the people you're pocking fun of.

The entire point is that the average person absolutely should not have to settle for less, and the point of technological development is to enhance everyone’s lives. The progression in your picture is essentially correct, that people in the future do not have to suffer the problems of those in the past.

Because companies lobbied to be able to use 3rd world exploitative labor practices while keeping the price of their shoes the same. I have never seen anything decline in price after its production was outsourced

The left hates the work class so much lmao anyway, we've had other companies make shoes here for decades. New Balance are better quality than Nike and 1/3 the price.

because catering to (((shareholders))) became a national sport also with fucking off from gold standard and 1980 wall street faggotry

Fast-paced, high injury rates, and robotic-level expectations. Pay is better than some, but the work conditions are often called "soul-crushing."

This is fairly accurate for Amazon. The starting wage seems low, I don't know anyone paid 17/hr, not even seasonal workers. I can tell you that in most areas, 20-30% of the workers do a solid 80% of the actual work. The stress is felt most by managers, because of the "robotic-level expectations". You are expected to move a certain volume at a very specific cost (this changes throughout the shift constantly) and each employee is expected to hit a certain rate which is honestly a rate suited for a diligent hard-worker. Most do not come near the expected rate, but that doesn't matter. You are expected to hit the rate and cost even though they know half of the workers are basically worthless. It's an interesting place.

So you believe that the 100 year old business model for building a new factory would be used as opposed to pic related?
Have you ever held a job?

Shoe production is completely automated

No it isn't, MIGA retard. If it were, then there would be no reason to not have shoe plants in the United States.

About as well as yours. 1 chink company built more shipping tankers in 2024 than the US has since WW2.

I don't understand, do they think the US doesn't have enough retards to man the factory lines? You are great at producing retards, one of the best, huge retards, very retarded.

China the benefits cheat with a space programme and massive spending on military
India the benefits cheat with a space programme and massive spending on military
If i check and find SA & Brazil aren't benefits cheats there will have to be a stewards enquiry
And (((Russia & Ukraine joint kleptocracy of murderer oligarchs))) all scamming and making their deliberately endless war against their own people - who aren’t (((their))) people really.
Are going to starve?
Oh no that’s just awful, teehee.
The media are trying to destroy the economy of the world. Like when glowies used AI to flood the internet with bots to create riots and like when they hoaxed a deadly plague.
Actual military force should be used to kill the mainstream media now. They need to be exterminated.
Pic: the big orange tarrifeds are coming DON’T PANIC (but do)

the tarrifeds are coming to get you!

the tarrifeds are coming to get you!

the tarrifeds are coming to get you!

are you hysterical yet?

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Properly made shoes last a lifetime. The disposable junk economy is unsustainable and needs to die.

argues against labor protection laws in favor of throwing third world innocents into a meet grinder so shlomo with his share holdings can make his profits go parabolic

The funny part is you are one of the people on the bottom of the image

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Child labor is legal in the US so this could work.

You say that proudly but you're a tiny island nation literally, actually, completely dependent on importing. And we are leaving. And you are not in the E.U...

you're not making those robots

You caught me there. That's actually an Italian company, but the USA has nearly a 50 billion a year automation market.
You're not in Calcutta anymore, Ranjeet.

You obviously know jackshit about what you're saying.

Salaries and prices are a super complex issue. During the Cold War, the biggest employer in USA was General Motors. Starting salaries were high, yet everyone could still afford their products.
Similarly in Germany biggest employer is Volkswagen, yet people can afford the cars?

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This guy is correct. Fuck libtards and kikes. The problem is trump prolly just follow a jew plan instead of wanting production to be back to the US.

the automation delusional

Saars.

You're too dumb/"proud" to even entertain asking.

I used to work at retail, now self employeed hackerman

I knew who plebs who worked at amazon warehouses in UK,and they told me similar stories. Thanks

explain plz

TRUMP made you 20-30% poorer overnight and still you aren't stopping sucking his dick.

You’re retarded. New Balance are made in the US and there’s some on Amazon for $33.

Dodges the question of what he does for work.

I guess that's my answer. So let me ask you this, At what wage point would you be willing to leave mommy's nest and go try to support yourself through your own efforts?

Half of any country will be below average in intelligence. They've lowered the average with the Department of Education and mass migration.

Then it will be us discussing work related issues in your countries.

yes it works and UK has tariffs.
yes they work and Australia uses tariffs.
Yes tariffs work and are used by Poland an EU.

Not all new balance are made in the USA
Only the 990v6 and 990v4
The rest are made overseas
Retarded nigger faggot

The alternative is a universal living income, which isn't going to happen. There's no jobs for most people.

Saars, that's not how we make shoes in New Delhi!

Don't worry, Veerjay, we'll still need someone to clean the toilets.

american sweatshops filled with indians

The future you chose

china does not want you to enlist.
they want you: the white man, to give up.

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Tell us what you do for work.

I’m a research scientist, but literally no person in the US should be making under 30 dollars an hour no matter what they do, and the profit margins of their employers should be forced lower in order to pay for this instead of passing costs off to the consumer.

Salaries and prices are a super complex issue. No it isnt.

Starting salaries were high, yet everyone could still afford their products.

Stop trying to tell labor whether the value they put on their time and effort is high or low especially when money is freely printed anyway... The entire point is they set the price and then they deal with the market demand or lack thereof said price brings. Calling people idiots or lazy or whatever is just arguing they should value their time less. Maybe society should value your time left living in this timeline at 0.

This. Normgroids have gotten spoiled and love their niggersportsball shoes to the point they've forgotten that you can actually buy quality stuff.
Just last month someone I was talking to was actually shocked that the boots I was wearing were like 8 years old and still look good as new
Which is weird, even 20 years ago buying stuff made to last was still the norm

you get american sweatshops that hire indians.

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cutting edge tech to make high end shoes exist, and technically every factory can be fully automated.
The reason they're not is because it's more cost efficient to have an assembly line of cheap labor.

A $4/hour wagie is cheaper than a robot.

No white american is going to do this job and even if they were there aren't enough of them
you'd need to bring in dozens of millions of jeets you dumb retard

This is true. Automation and offshoring have eliminated a lot of jobs that used to provide stable employment for many people.

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Wow, shelf stocker to elite hacker and bitcoin millionaire. That's a rags to riches story.
Do you not believe that many high tech jobs are required to design, implement, and operate the sort of modern factory that I've been posting pictures of?

I’m a research scientist,

Ask your dad who works at Nintendo if you can get me a Switch 2 without me having to pay tariffs.

I am wearing a custom made pair of shoes. They're leather and made in the USA by craftsman, not slaves. I paid 750 bucks for them, but if I take care of them, they can be resoled and rebuilt. Unlike Nike throw-away garbage. Has anyone stopped to think that their consumer habits are the actual issue? I don't wear cheap footwear. I am not the type of person who enjoys the thought of every step I take, stepping on the backs of slaves.
The liberal talking point is literally

we want slaves, and cheap throw away items!

That's not a great stance to take, I don't think. Also, anyone who's ever stepped foot into an American factory knows there are not sweat shop conditions.
So let me ask you this.
Am I stupid for buying the custom American made leather shoes for 750 that will last a lifetime? Or are you stupid for spending 100-200 bucks on a pair of Nikes that will only last a year if you actually wear them with any regularity?

Do you not believe that many high tech jobs are required to design, implement, and operate the sort of modern factory that I've been posting pictures of?

I didn't say?

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technically every factory can be fully automated.

Not true in the slightest. You can automate aspect of most production processes, but most can't be fully automated.

They think the tariff proceeds are going to be used to pay down their federal debt!! They think Trump isn't going to funnel that money to himself and his pals!! Hahaha how fucking retarded can they be.

A $4/hour wagie is cheaper than a robot.

Source: Sukhdeep Dikshit.
What was the most people you ever had to employ at one of the businesses you managed or owned?

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My high end custom shoes were made on 100 year old equipment. Shoe tech is not new. Cheap ass rubber shoe thech built by the lowest bidder is new.

No white american is going to do this job

I went to the Automation Expo in Las Vegas last year and it was 3 stadium sized buildings full of White Americans offering automation solutions for businesses.

Am I stupid for buying the custom American made leather shoes for 750 that will last a lifetime?

No

Or are you stupid for spending 100-200 bucks on a pair of Nikes that will only last a year if you actually wear them with any regularity?

Mother fucker everyone is living on the edge financially speaking, the average idiot cannot afford $750 for a pair of fucking shoes of all things. Yes that's on them for being retards, but that doesn't change the math. You are obviously an out of touch outlier with some equity to your name, most other people are not in that position, and the cascading adverse effects on your overall economy will be astounding.

I just can't decide whether you guys are baiting or are genuinely braindead, it's like you keep getting worse every day

This is only due to unrestricted mass migration and forcing locals to compete with pajeets and other foreigners. If kikes and their boomer shabbos didn't fuck everyone over this wouldn't be an issue.

nike goes out of buisness

american made new balance picks up the slack

based

What a lazy boy!

New Balance already manufacture their shoes in the US and UK and their prices are the same as Nike. Why are leftists so retarded?

Are they making fucking shoes for Sasquatch?

Cool thread Pierre but if the value of purchasing power of 1.20reichmarks/hr in the future is the equivalent of 35reichmarks/hr that means we won......hard.

t. some nazi in April 1938

This anon knows how modern day automated factories work and look.
It's over for leftists in this thread. MAAGA , Make American Automation Great Again.

did you forget you had 4 yrs to do that already?
The fact you did fuck all in the last 4 means precisely you will accomplish fuck all in the next 4

lots of practice

The official shoe of Anon Babble

Based seal steals boomer's seat.

Why would you ask me what I do for work if you already decided not to believe me?

Full automation is dumb. Automating the easy end of 85% of any process is good enough.

Only 2 models of new balance are made in USA and they cost $200
The rest are made overseas

I

everyone is living on the edge financially speaking

Not me. Can you describe the series of bad life choices that got you to that point so that we don't fuck up our lives as bad as you have?

Hopefully someone will assassinate Trump.

3 stadium sized buildings full of White Americans offering automation solutions for businesses.

and what they usually hear from potential clients is "Why would I spend X dollars on your solution when I can offshore and ship it back for less?"

Jobs coming back will be in semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, and cars among others. Those companies relying on cheap labor that they're having to pay $1.50/hr, which is not true since they pay more than that and for all sorts of staff that are paid a lot more, are selling their shoes to Americans for very marked up prices and screwing Americans over. The more these corporate Dems speak, the more obvious it becomes how little they give a fuck about Americans.

Buying cheap throw away items isn't the solution. It's what is being offered to you by the corpo jews. I am not rich. I decided I wanted a certain pair of shoes and I saved up and bought them. That doesn't really fit into the

just consume, ok?

Have you ever stopped to think about the environment? I can tell you're a leftie, so I know you want to pay more taxes to save the world, but wouldn't people buying less cheap throw away products benefit the entire world? The shipping alone... My God, have you stopped to think about all the ships on the ocean shipping raw materials to china and india so laves can build a shitty product to be shipped across the world to you, so you use it for a month, and buy another.
You're the problem.

so they literally want to enslave white men? what the fuck

Michigan is advertising chip manufacturing and future microchip jobs in other states.
Pure Michigan®

Not me. Can you describe the series of bad life choices that got you to that point so that we don't fuck up our lives as bad as you have?

Where did I say I was one of the poors?
I grew up poor, but now very comfortable financially. I remember the poor days, the thought of spending $750 on shoes when your clipping coupons to eat beans, insanity.
I still have friends who are poor, they aren't buying $750 shoes, insanity.
Look at any number of financial statistics, most people can't scrap up $500 for an emergency expense. Bleeding "most people" dry via their consumption is what runs your economy and you're putting the screws to them. Soon they won't be buying the $50 shoes either because they lost their jobs, or the $50 shoes now cost $250. Your economy will grind to a halt.

Wrap your head around this concept:

cato.org/publications/comparative-advantage

There is absolutely no fucking benefit bringing most of this manufacturing back to the United States. You benefit economically from being able to purchase cheaper goods so you can have more money to buy other goods. Full stop.

Even if tariffs are successful they will make you poorer.

You're the problem.

Careful. You tell normies/retards that and they start frothing at the mouth. Just make fun of them for paying taxes that go directly to Trump's pockets lmao. And let them argue about how taxes should still go up anyway. As Trump deletes the IRS....

The left can't AI

Sounds like the perfect time to build some factories.

Seems super risky, but it would be fun if American car makers would be able to make like a proper competitor to Toyota or Mercedes. I'd love to see a new American car on par with a Land Cruiser.

Oh, I believe you. So tell me, professor science. If pic related is owed $30 an hour but cannot produce $30 an hour worth of value who will have to kick in the difference to provide him the consumption to which you feel he is entitled?

Buying cheap throw away items isn't the solution.

Consuming cheap crap IS your economy. That's what you guys do, you consume. So as long as you acknowledge that eliminating cheap crap is eliminating your economy, we are on the same page. You are advocating to destroy your economy.
Oh oh ohhhh we will just manufacture in america, you will say - You will not because you do not have the factory infrastructure, nor the transportation infrastructure, nor the raw materials, nor the electrical grid, nor the labor, and so on. And you will not have these things within five years at best, if everything goes perfectly (it won't).

I can tell you're a leftie, so I know you want to pay more taxes to save the world

You're criticizing taxes now, but you applaud tariffs? Did you know port of entries collect tariffs and remit that money to *gasp* the government? What is it called when money is taken from private enterprise and given to the govt?

according to estimations, Americans would need to become 4.284.930.128.420.069.256% times poorer to get to the level of Shitjeets

muh brownoids have superior work ethic!

*looks inside work ethic*

it's slavery

Anon, stop being anti-social.

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and what they usually hear from potential clients is "Why would I spend X dollars on your solution when I can offshore and ship it back for less?"

Source: Another demoralized retard.
Yeah, tens of thousands of businesses pay $100 plus flight, meals and hotels in Vegas just to tell automation providers that we're not interested.
How can people be so sheltered and so buck broken at the same time?
Tell us what you believe modern farming is like and how we're all going to starve without 60IQ mud goblins.

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unironically thats what we need

these are all kikeshills btw

most people can't scrap up $500 for an emergency

Ah, the age old tale of the grasshopper and the ant. Sucks to suck I guess.

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groceries $2000/month

eating out $1000/month

And here I am thinking I was wasting money by spending €50 a week on food. Then again, I never earned more than €2000/month.

For sure, I completely agree.
That does not change the fact that your entire economy is dependent on those retards consuming.
So with recent happenings, their costs are boosted even more for those retards. They are forced to cutback on whatever they buy from you, whatever you happen to sell, hitting your bank account adversely. And then you can't buy the shit that you would normally buy because your revenue took a hit. And then you both lose your jobs because neither of you have customers any more. Multiply this circumstance by 300 million people, somehow this is good for america?

Don't those expensive robots use lots of low grade chips that are already crunchedin supply and use rare metals that China currently corners the market on?

Because we’re going to fucking tank the global economy if they don’t

But the stinky brown people should do it for 1.50 right? AHH leftists, the irony is delicious.

you are still paying 200+ $ for a pair of nike shoes, if the company cant a 30$ dollar cut on profit it shouldn't exist in the first place.

I don't buy Nike, haven't for a long time. Overpriced, shit quality.

and they cost $200

So the same as Nike?

NOOOOOOOO YOU CANT DO THAT TO NIKE! THEY MIGHT ONLY MAKE 8X INSTEAD OF 10X THIS IS AN OUTRAGE HOW WILL THEY AFFORD ALL THE DEI PROGRAMS NOW

Hm I can't make out what kind of shoe he's making? It looks like it's made for a kangaroo

Or, how about we just incentivize returning manufacturing industries to the USA so that we can have pic related churning out consumer goods for all the nigger brained cattle who feel the need to buy shit they don't need with money they don't have to impress people they don't like.
If it makes you feel better we can still give some nigger sportsball player a hundred million dollars a year to slap his name on the sneakers.

Reserch that dick faggot

yes i agree, point is usually these big brands they get like 95%+ profit on a shit shoes.
only people that buy nike's are niggers anyway, nothing of value is lost.

You benefit economically from being able to purchase cheaper goods so you can have more money to buy other goods. Full stop.

So we don't benefit from other countries removing their import tariffs on them? Surely if we don't benefit from them being removed, then those countries should just remove those in the first place?
I'm learning new things in economics today, it was my understanding that having to pay other countries to ship them goods was a bad thing. I guess Ford just started making cars in Mexico because they like tacos.

Most of them are made in Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Vietnam I think. And then in the UK anyway they're charging £150+ for a pair of trainers put together by some third worlder for a pittance.

Trump made me 0% poorer or richer because I don't gamble

You see picrel, Those will be the one making those shoes, shirt and pant............

Tesla stock are a steal at the present price.

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Raising taxes will make shekelsberg pay you more

phahapha, more like you'll understand you can't afford the quality you think you can when you haev to pay 1k for shoes. retard.

Yes. $1.50 goybucks in brownland is like 20 dollars an hour

No one would buy Nike shoes if they inflated the cost 5x.

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

how about we just don't make shit plastic nigger shoes?

That's The Killing right? I need to see that one again

Wow, really? Well, maybe you're just too poor to afford "made in usa" textiles?

Don't those expensive robots use lots of low grade chips

And G-d forbid we start making those here, amirite?

Nice thread, shill flag.
As an outsider, "Made in USA" is synonymous with quality, on par with Made in Germany or Japan (and the opposite of Made in China) so I'll gladly pay the difference.

What do you suppose FOB cost is for a pair of Nike sneakers from the factory in the Far East?

THINK ABOUT THE MEGA CORPORATION THEY WONT BE ABLE TO TO MALE 10X PROFIT, ONLY 8X SOMEONE DO SOMETHING

okay, tariffs work but no one wants THOSE jobs

its all so tiresome

Factories had no problem finding workers when we were a manufacturing economy

lay down in traffic, chang

I only consider that your IQ is 65 and you're simplay a subhuman shitskin animal that learned how to type

REEEEEE this is literally slavery!

youtube.com/watch?v=GbGeEMDGqOc

Seriously, what kind of sheltered child believes that modern manufacturing is some 19th century steam powered sweatshop?

NOOOOOOOO, some mistreated slave will have to put a bolt of cloth onto a machine when we tool up to make a different color upper!
This is literally slavery!
youtube.com/watch?v=vCn7HmLDxho
Seriously, why the fuck are we building these with "cheap labor" on the other side of the world when there's only about 10 seconds of human labor per sneaker coming off the line once the factory is built and the designs programmed into the CAD files?

I spent a decade working hospitality, started as a valet and worked my way into group sales at a large resort. I made good money but my life was pure stress.

I got a job at a recycling plant and its been the best thing that has ever happened to me. I lost a ton of weight, I've picked up mechanical skills, I have a set schedule, and my life is 100000x better.
I also work with men who take the job seriously. I come in, do my fucking work, keep my area clean, help out others when I can, and my job does not follow me home.
Also no wedding planners or corporate group organizers to deal with. No ''influencers" constantly trying to get free room nights promising to make a video about our property.
I still make good money, I have a pension, more vacation time than I used to

There is also TONS of opportunity to move up in industrial jobs.

The next phase of this should be a challenge to Ford v. Dodge.

Reducing a mass consumerism culture is a good thing.

started as a valet

I have a friend who does this now and he loves it. He lives/works in a very upscale area and is an extreme extrovert so apparently he makes really good tips too.
As you say, there's a lot of opportunity in manufacturing, just not 1950s tier sitting there doing the same 2" weld on one part for 8 hours a day.

What if after Trump's plan you can buy a full cart of groceries? Yeah, stfu. Trust the plan. Julius is always done anyways.

but now it have more jobs than people

False. Companies get various benefits from hiring so they're always "hiring" even though they don't actually have any positions avaliable. The labor shortage is fake and gay.

I can't wait for democrats to stop acting like slave owners

Foreigners and other assorted memeflags are very worried about us, bless them.

I love how this has revealed just how the left is filled with sinecure job laptop class spoiled brats. The working class is working at fucking Dollar Tree. You think they would feel bad about manufacturing sneakers?

What do you absolute pseuds not understand about this: the point is not to bring t shirt manufacturing to the U.S. The point is to bring semiconductor and high tech automobile manufacturing. Stop being such a fucking retard.

I also love how every 90-105 IQ pseud suddenly fancies themselves an economist and expert on global trade. If this is you you should shut the fuck up.

You are working OT today glownaygre! You are probably a bot. You know when the west makes shoes it will have to compete with slaves right? So they will make shoes with machines and this will employ programmers, technicians, robotics engineers, mechanical engineers, electricians, and millwrights. Sooo... no sweat shop labor.

they dont understand.
being a cobbler used to pay well enough to have a family.

why shouldnt it today?

Keep arguing in favor or foreign slave labor and expecting that to be a convincing argument for patriotic Americans, moron.

I need my poorly made plastic slave labor sneakers because… I just do ok???

Or you could spend twice as much on a pair of actual quality shoes made here that will last 10x as long if properly cared for and actually look good while you’re at it

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but then how would he satisfy his feminine need to consoom new stuff every six months?
owning the same pair of shoes for years is soooo boooring

its called being a decent human bean

s-slave labor is cool because its inclusive okay bigot i-i i NEED this

the left has gone insane

Always have been. They want everyone in dire poverty while they and the select few with “pure” ideology run everything from an ivory tower.

can't wait for mass GDPcel suicides

work bad corporations bad

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Stay mad

Miiggers think manufacturing jobs in America's will be good because as soon as manfacturing hits America's magic dirt, they will instantly become well-paying jobs that can buy you a house in the suburbs and support a family like they could before they got offshored.

That is a delusional. Jobs like that only became good after decades of labor union agitation. They fucking sucked and paid like shit at first. Just because the jobs come back (they aren't btw) doesn't mean the unions and good pay are. Neoliberalism eroded all that progress away and the unions died. You would have to fight for that all over again.

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Lmao 80iq jeet take

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logic of the market and shareholders?

Also known as the downward spiral of quality until brand recognition has been beaten like a dead horse... then mystery equity does a buyout and sells everything of value.

You logic of the market and shareholders types better suck up to Elon so he can explore outer space for cheap labor

You have tariffs backwards brother, tariffs are a tax on the importer. The guy in America pays the tariff when the good enters the country, the other country does not pay the tariff.

The left

Well, we now know in history, there was never a "progressive left", it's "paid for" political party sponsered by glowniggers using U.S. tax payers money through USAID.
Oddly enough, gay niggers that love obama in nepal do not happen naturally.

You can’t think of pay as hourly salary here you have to add in a gorillion benefits that cost as much or more than the wage bill.

you don't understand, we NEED slave labor

Leftists are so fuck retarded. Honestly if nikes cost like 10 or even 20 bucks I could understand their argument but when they are 100-150 or more wtf is the point of child labor making them

They wouldn’t which is why you need tariffs. Tariffs change the financial incentives and disincentivize exploitation of cheap overseas labor.

Way before the internet was a wet pedo dream. We had a local shoe shop that sold Alden returns. I probably have ten pairs. This was in 1985-ish, they were $30. I still wear them now. Forty years later. Amazing quality

forcing jobless porch monkeys to work in sweatshops is indeed based.

Retard buys cheap shit that falls apart then complains lmao. Just find good brands and learn how to look at shit. Most clothes even with mid to high end fashion brands aren't made in the US for a reason.

i refuse to believe trump is a senile autocrat without a plan scaring congress with maga cultists. He sorrounds himself with the elite. They might have subsidized the favtories to get th kickstarted. I cant form an opinion on this because i dont know the details like thrm taking back a lot of tarrifs...

sorry having a stroke

weimar currency was called papiermarks and basically this is the argument that if white people ever get their own state it will be crushed by a zog military alliance like the united nations or nato. even if the non jewish state does get crushed it will prove that white people can live without jewish bankers and lawyers

Tariifs work. Period. What you do with the Tariff money is important. If this "tax" on the people is reinvested in the people themselves. (Trump Tariff Dividend, eliminating income taxes, building parks/roads/etc...)

So, Tariffs will work. And we will benefit regardless of the money invested, but it could be fucking mind blowingly amazing. But I don't have hope for that, this will just fund the Iran war.

New Balance makes USA-made sneakers for only about 25% more than their Asian counterpart. Nike will live.

Maybe next time don't base your opposition on nigger and faggot worship. You deserve worse.

Niggers don't have $500 for them Air Jordan's made in Ohio

The average individual who buys air jordans spends an average of slightly over 700$ a year on air jordans.

We don’t need slave labor, we need Republicans to pass a living minimum wage and fucking rent control. That solves about a third of the issues. You retards have projected so hard that you don’t even see what’s at the end of your own fork anymore. Actual cult

I really hate how politics is taking the exact opposite side of the other guys.
I see libs and maga making complete asses of themselves arguing on behalf of fucking corporations.

The fact that they were so naive to allow it to happen, under the illusion that they were uplifting and moving their descendants forward, also doesn't entitle them to the value that they think they are owed.

it doesn't have to be that way. instead of mass produced junk we could have quality again and not being so cheap maybe people will respect things a bit more

muh minimum wage

raising the minimum wage is a bandaid soluton, it doesnt stop the bleeding. we just need to devalue the dollar until it matches the current minimum wage.

Nigger your dollar will continue to be devalued you have to be completely clueless to even think otherwise

Consumer goods are cheap junk because of the declining rate of profit and the fact that if you sell someone a good product that lasts forever they'll never need to be your customer again. Those facts won't change just because of America's magic dirt. You'll just make cheap junk in America.

Raising min wages while not protecting American jobs and industries with tariffs is just asking companies to outsource even more than they have.

Did you every count the loss before? You bled trillions every year.

2010: $2 trillion of manufacturing, service and programming jobs lost.
2011: $4 trillion of manufacturing, service and programming jobs lost.
2012: $6 trillion of manufacturing, service and programming jobs lost.
2013: $8 trillion of manufacturing, service and programming jobs lost.
2014: $10 trillion of manufacturing, service and programming jobs lost.
2015: $12 trillion of manufacturing, service and programming jobs lost.

You should have counted these. Trump did.

b-but wont you think of the poor stockholders

job stats are all fake and manipulated in the whole west. theres far more unemployed people in every country than the official stats show

Companies get various benefits from hiring

Can you tell me what benefits my company can get for advertising fake jobs? Post some links please.

being a cobbler used to pay well enough to have a family.

why shouldnt it today?

Because pic related primarily, but there is still a niche market for boutique first world hand-made shoes. Post up pics with timestamp of some of the shoes you've crafted using your decades of experience in the craft and we can help you with a marketing plan to sell them to hollywood types and nuevo-rich girl-bosses and such.

Or maybe we could just stop trying to corral the capitalist class into not doing the things that are bad for the country that they want to do with "incentives" and just take control away from them already.

Like you're admitting their natural inclinations are bad for the rest of us, just get rid of them.

I'll bet Americans will feel rich when we have all our pharmaceuticals and metals imports axed in the next war. Globalization was a byproduct of total American primacy in the 1990s. Don't be so sure this current era of geopolitical stasis will last through the protracted decline of (relative) American/Western global power.

WE NEED A HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE

HE NEED TO GIVE BLACKS REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY

WE NEED TO USE THIRD WORLD CHILDREN AS SLAVE LABOR TO MAKE OUR SHOES

WE NEED TO IMPORT MILLIONS OF MEXICANS TO PICK COTTON FOR US

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This is what a modern factory looks like

Source r-antiwork

Post pics of what you believe you look like when you put on the wig, dress, and makeup.

Maybe we wouldn't have to worry about wars if America wasn't starting them at Israel's behest.

Wouldn’t that be an amazing thing. You’ll probably be murdered for mentioning that on the internet.

Because Trump just put a Tariff on the entire world? Those X dollars will likely be cheaper anyway.

You mean the golden age of America before you, SPIC. I was there. It was beautiful. And the only place any of us ever heard Spanish and saw brown fat goblins waddling around was in the east LA barrio east of Western.

There were about 14 of you.
It was paradise.

2025: US is 37 trillion in debt.

Trump plays it like Biden changes nothing. Yaaay. EU is happy selling stuff to US. China is happy. The hole world was happy exploiting USA like a dysfunctional crack whore.

2026: US is 39 trillion in debt.
2027: US is 41 trillion in debt.

Tick tock.

What are you going to do USA? We will hate you if you stop buying our shit while we dont buy US shit. EU is now FURIOUS.

Tick tock.

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this isn't talked about enough

we need to reduce our purchasing power to a third world rate to justify our current standard of living

as opposed to instituting long form cap on rent and a standard wage of at least twenty an hour to match what’s projected to be the current standard of living

I don’t know about you but I’ve been to fucking India and I’d very much prefer it if we didn’t end up like that.

This just proves the point that competing with literal slave labor is only good for the rich. We don’t have access to cheaper goods, THE RICH DO. We get fucked.
Keep it up retards. Maybe companies like Nike and the rest of the industries that do this should fail and disappear.

Let's become China

Except without anti-corruption executions

Or the centrally planned economy

Or the free medical care

Or the world class public infrastructure

The 1950s aren't coming back just because you're working on an assembly line like a real man making cents an hour.

Says the cultist xD

One more comment. You could use that idea to identify companies propped up with fake wall street money schemes. Take trucks for example. Typical truck is $120,000... in reality maybe worth $35,000. Real estate market is totally fucked up. I worked in civil so I can think of a million examples. But know of many examples of something being $130,000 ten years ago now selling at $600,000. There is no reality between those two numbers.

That's the byproduct of financial markets expecting line to go to forever regardless of actual economic growth + brrrrr money printing going directly into private coffers to prop up totally financialized industries.
You could balance that effect by putting some of that brrrrr into public infrastructure, public housing, or public jobs. Anything besides trying to run that money through corporate CEOs to build something useful, who will use that money to pay themselves a bonus before doing something amorphously techy and financial with the rest.

Not true, the amount of low hanging fruit on consumer goods is insane. Take a frige for example. Make a basic box with handle. Put compressor in an easy access location for maintenance. Market it as designed for maintenance. Hell i’m in a retirement area. The old boomer seek out 30-40 year old washing machines because the agitators work and they can be fixed.

Modern globohomo wiz bang lost its fictional luster, the shine is wearing off the turd.

Happy workers means a happy industry. You’re defending the cocksuckers for raping you and you’re not even asking them to wear a condom. Let me explain this in one sentence: they were always going to look for cheaper ways to do things. This is what happens when you incentivize profit over prosperity. Bootstrapping them is only going to make them act shittier to the domestic populace. You take the dollar’s strength out of the equation and poof, there goes any reason for them to give a fuck about Americans. Congrats, you’ve created a bigger debt spiral and more incoming debt to add to the pile. You solved nothing and pissed off just about everyone, including the capitalist pigs who were more than happy to suck you off if it meant beau coup bucks and a tax haven. This is literal Gordon Gekko shit.

He only did reciprocal, matching existing ones other countries already had in place. Little bitch

You don't have to pay a robot hourly wages.

Robots aren’t free and they break

That's the point. They don't want you to have something that easily fixable because then you wont buy from them ever again. They want to sell you slop that breaks after a few years and then you need to buy from them again. Making high quality products is a bad business model.

That's what happened to the Instant Pot. It was a high quality product that wasn't designed to fail. Everyone who wanted one went out and bought one, and the company went out of business because the customer base became too small to be sustainable.

So those countries are now importing at a higher cost. Negating the savings from paying a monkey to sew shit. They were only able to gt away from exporting slavery because we had 0 fucking tariffs. Are you mentally fucking retarded?

Turns out the fucking monkey slave labor isn't free either.