Dude, what meds you been popping lately? Because either you’re making this shit up on the spot, or they’ve brainwashed you so thoroughly that your original brain cells packed up and left.
if i run a global company, i’d sit out these four year. there is absolutely not a single factory can be finished in 4 years. look at the Baltimore bridge, 2 billion budget and 4 years construction timeline, why not use army corp of engineers. it is a nut.
Automakers aren’t rushing to move production to US factories to avoid tariffs ...The difficulty in shifting production “There are not a lot of levers we can pull in the very short term,” said one auto industry executive, who spoke on background to CNN on Wednesday, in anticipation of Trump’s announcement. “We’re talking about a capital-intensive industry. We’re certainly thinking about what we would do in different scenarios.” The automakers came up with their supply chains and geographic distribution of plants with the understanding that previous trade deals, including the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA)which was negotiated by Trump during his first term, allowed them to operate as if North America was essentially a single market. They were moving parts back and forth across borders during the assembly process. Now they’re being told there is a costly penalty to doing that. ... ‘A lot of costs, and a lot of chaos’ While automakers are seeing “a lot of cost and a lot of chaos” from Trump’s tariff threats, as Ford CEO Jim Farley said at an investor conference last month, they’re still not going to build new plants. At least not immediately. Part of that is because Trump’s on-again-off-again levies don’t provide the certainty that automakers need to invest billions of dollars in new plants. “If they become permanent, then there’s a whole bunch of different things that you have to think about, in terms of where do you allocate plants, do you move plants, etc,” General Motors CFO Paul Jacobson told investors last month. But he said the company has too many questions about the future of trade policy to make those kinds of decisions at this time. “Those are questions that just don’t have an answer today,” he said. “Think about a world where we’re spending billions in capital, and then it ends. We can’t be whipsawing the business back and forth.” ..."What’s clear is that automakers would have significantly less cash to build any new facilities should tariffs upend the industry. “Let’s be real honest: Long term, a 25% tariff across the Mexico and Canada borders would blow a hole in the US industry that we’ve never seen,” Ford’s Farley said in his recent comments to investors."... https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/27/...oduction-tariffs-analysis-intl-hnk/index.html Pretty much all US car makers are dependent on cheap labour across the border for their supply chains. Producing everything here - which as stated above would take ages if even at all possible - would effectively translate into way higher end prices for the consumer just to compensate for higher US wages, meaning that demand would go right down. People just wouldn't and indeed couldn't afford to pay so much more with a large portion of the US population living paycheck to paycheck as is even now with so much cheap stuff still available.
If manufacturing never left, the USD would have never been the world reserve currency, and the US would never have had the glorious last few decades. Americans would have never had the amazing quality of life with access to cheap goods while exporting all of that inflation to somewhere else. You can't just avoid the drawbacks without also being aware of the huge benefit this was to most Americans. I was also reading that some production might come back, but this doesn't mean the jobs will. Much of future production will be automated, so its not like there will be a renaissance of highly paid US workers with good jobs while needing only minimal education.
The future feels rather bleak, grim, stale, depressing and fucked for most of society, people, the world. Universal Basic Income seems like the only option while AI takes the majority of tasks jobs to do The tech titan warlords will support and control the world's populace existance. Fun.
And how does this UBI get paid for when governments are broke? The US is essentially already doing UBI. Most jobs created in the past few years were governments jobs, and those guys aren't all that necessary or productive. But they simply exist so that the GDP number looks good. Think about it, just a slightly positive GDP number for the past few years is all that was created from $2T of deficit. So all of that government spending, money that the government doesn't even have, was necessary to keep the economy from imploding. The government cannot fix the problem that it created.
Well, how is that playing out? These countries have gone out of their way to accomodate Trump, make him look good, invest in the USA and what have they got for it? They've been slapped with incredibly high tariffs anyway... See how they now begin to pause. Keep it up and they'll start divesting, the way they started divesting from China.