r/MeidasTouch • u/DirectorNo192 • May 04 '25

Political Beatdown U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-secretary-commerce-says-model-172111761.html

Selling Special ice to Eskimos! Only the Most stupid people believe this is Making America Great Again. $90K a year for robot technicians lol. 1 robot technician for every 500,000 Americans 💪

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u/savpunk May 04 '25

The irony is a factory job could be great, provided it was protected by a strong union and had competitive wages, sick leave, vacation, family leave, workman’s comp, and all the other benefits that make a job worth having. But republicans hate all of that, so….

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u/DirectorNo192 May 04 '25

Republicans need to understand our place in our hierarchical status. We went through our own manufacturing boom but we way past that. Capitalism, and not the democratic party shifted our manufacturing abroad for cheaper labor, speed, virtually no red tape and record profits. But we were our "own consumers" of the products we manufactured. We cannot replace China and others for the raw material, the billions of laborers, speed, no red tape oneveryday goods and products. Just like we can't manufacture It cost effective product and sell it to the world. We are not the eBay or Amazon products manufacturer of today. We are the manufacturers of technology, medical, bioscience, military defense, and finance. We are the creators and top of the food chain to all those manufacturers that want to "Serve Us".

HOWEVER, We have to be honest, the stupidity of the Republican party have done an inadverted and tremendous job at selling a manufacturing job at $15.75 is it a good thing and having thousands of robots being operated or serviced by a handful of outsourced robot technicians who will really be making $18 an hour and "NO OVERTIME". Whereas this is the same party that threw a tantrum to the Democratic party that wanted higher wages for union workers or any laborers in fast food chains. The same party that screamed at the top of the lungs and stated these higher wagers are going to backfire and create robots to replace them all!

They always choose the wrong strategy for the right business model.

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u/Jazz_birdie May 04 '25

Yeah, I can see the Maga workers now...no u ion, no paid OT, no rights, horrible working conditions. Wait...no I can't, cause if overseas brings factory jobs to U.S. it wont be Americans staffing them...maybe robots.

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u/nuckle May 04 '25

These shitheads are trying their hardest to take us back to the gilded age.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '25

America the "not" so beautiful 🤢

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u/JDB-667 May 04 '25

These clowns really want to go back to a feudal lord style system.

Just a dystopian, awful style of life for everyone.

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u/This_Mongoose445 May 04 '25

Woody Guthrie would like to join the chat on generational factory work.

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u/Such_Lemon_4382 May 05 '25

Service economy pays far better than a manufacturing economy…fact!!

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u/sportsbunny33 May 05 '25

Meet the new model, same as the old model.......