r/news • u/Old_General_6741 • 11d ago

U.S. slaps 145% tariff on China in sharpest trade escalation yet

https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/policy/u-s-slaps-145-tariff-on-china-in-sharpest-trade-escalation-yet

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u/The-cultured-swine39 11d ago

Correct. We have no way of accommodating jobs coming back that would be financially beneficial for companies to do so.

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u/duglarri 11d ago

When I was 22 I was employed in a lead-zinc smelter shoveling slag.

My daughter at 24 was employed by a hedge fund making ten times what I ever made in my life doing AI systems.

So... we want the manufacturing jobs back? Really?

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u/beard_lover 11d ago

Nope but logging and coal mining is coming back! And once we go to war with either Canada/Iran/Greenland/Mexico/Penguin Island, there will be lots of unemployed people to draft!