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OAITW r.2.0

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8. There won't be a new "Golden Age of US manufacturing". Why?

Reply to Cosmocat (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 9, 2025, 01:47 PM

Apr 2025

(1) We are pretty much at full employment now.
(2) Trump is getting rid of lower cost immigrant labor.
(3) The cost to onshore manufacturing without labor means very high factory cost investments to use robotics to produce the products now imported from low labor cost countries. Which means higher costs to the consumer.

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