A Boring Dystopia

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".

So they're saying they want us to die on the job. That might be okay for some but I still want to at least pretend to retire before I croak

Hey, knowing the means of production in and out will be pretty valuable once the working class also own it.

And "rest of your life" means you dying from work related health issues at fifty, of course.

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.

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.

To be fair, this is what this government promised. The issue is that the voters just took it in

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?

Think I'll pass, bud. I've read The Jungle, I know how this ends.

Children make good factory slaves. Now I understand why they got rid of the department of education.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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 ~~careers~~ jobs 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.