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America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back

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842 points putzdown | 1 comments | 15 Apr 25 13:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.264s | source
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csense ◴[15 Apr 25 14:14 UTC] No.43693018[source]▶
There are plenty of people saying these tariffs will not work.

But a person used to be able to graduate high school and get a job that could support a house with a yard, a car, a non-working spouse and children.

How we get that level of prosperity back? That's the people really want. Tariffs are simply a means to that end.

I wish people would stop writing articles about 100% criticizing tariffs and instead write articles 50% about criticizing tariffs and 50% brainstorming alternative solutions to achieve the same objective.

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1. adgjlsfhk1 ◴[15 Apr 25 14:30 UTC] No.43693283[source]▶
oh that can be done in 3 easy steps.

1. win a world war that destroys the economy of every other country in the world for a decade.

2. destroy about the past 50 years of technology and all knowledge of how manufacture it.

3. Kill 90% of people over retirement age to lower demand for housing, healthcare costs, and retirement benefits.

In the modern world with modern technology there's a lot less productive work out there for people without specialized education. We could do a better job of training more people for trades jobs (e.g. plumbers, electricians etc), and removing college requirements from some professions (e.g. med school and law school could probably be college level education rather than post college) but anyone saying that we're going back is just lying.