Hate to break it to you but they get these jobs done cheaper, faster and more reliably than everyone else. The Falcon 9 is the cheapest option on the planet, with the most launch cadence and reliability. You can look it up and compare.

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https://www.mackinac.org/blog/2024/a-generation-of-subsidies-hasnt-created-auto-jobs-in-michigan No. We’ve spend $22.7 billion since 2000 trying to keep jobs and lost 145,000 of those jobs.

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Because the economy is doing well. AI is creating a lot of jobs and economic growth.

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Costco gas already up 15%. Average Joe is cooked. Expect more job cuts, economic contraction, shrinking jobs market, more defaults bankruptcies and potential coup on the country in the next two years. 2008 all over again is coming

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“The 119th congress was the least productive in history, no congress has enacted less legislation or laws. Johnson has cancelled a total 63 scheduled voting days in the house, granting members an extra 2 months PTO, with no house votes scheduled until after the election.” - community notes X Sooooo I’m screaming to fire people from boring jobs and start paying them to be Americans. Our senators are doing it for themselves. Let’s give every American the senator treatment: you get to be less productive and make the same pay!

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Yeah frito lays is suffering pretty massively. Saw smiths reduce there prices down to buy 2 get 2 so .99 cents a bag. Food prices going up are expected as we lay people off. Currently a major labor rebalance is taking foot that many people are operating at a subsistence level and we no longer need them to. I expect as we fire 2/3 of Amazon and Walmart and Costco and Kroger and Nike and Uber and all other unneeded jobs we are going to have net less labor briefly. We need to have 100% of the current production or greater and we could have prices be stable for food. Xpeng has robots building robots (infinite labor loop) we need to start dividing the pie. I’d start with a $1000 a month non means tested to all Americans. This will help offset the employment loss. By announcing the dividend you also cure any toxic narrative that it’s haves vs have nots and more we are all trying to make the dividend go as far as possible for all.

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With the precedent already set with our government bailing out our failing car companies we might as well keep them in business with protectionist policies. Our government wants manufacturing jobs here for national security interests if nothing else.

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I think people have a point, to a degree. When a big factory comes to your town it belches polution but it provides a living (in the past lol) to the families in the town. It's an implicit social contract. With a data centre there are no jobs. it is a big fuckoff building that eats power, drives up the price of land and more importantly construction (aka down the supply of housing), and at the end of the day may as well be in Africa. Now yeah, just kicking it to the other side of the world with no concern for the consequences is stupid, but I don't think its entirely propoganda to see that as a shit deal. You're correct the answer is to regulate the data centres to make them less shit, but the US is allergic to effective regulations (and some would argue the EU is addicted to stiffling ones). Answer to propoganda is to offer people an alternative, not to ignore it.

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automakers in the US directly lead to 5-7% of the entire US workforce It’s a major source of decent white collar middle class, and blue collar union jobs. There is no way to compete on Chinese pricing without millions of people taking massive paycuts and going into poverty or switching fields entirely. Never mind that China does not exact play fair..(who does). But in this example… A US company who provides auto parts and tooling is forced spend hundreds of thousands a year on software licenses. In China they can just download it and not pay without risk of repercussions. I personally had a coworker who went to China on a business trip and had the Chinese counterpart put a cad software on his laptop that flagged once it reached the US and got the company sued for 6 figures. Wages and cost of business are much higher in the US. The two cannot compete on an even playing field. The only thing the US can do is protect its manufacturing industry by not allowing Chinese cars to be sold here. Manufacturing is a critical field. In times of war or general world termoil it is critical to be able to produce your own items required for your population to live. Destroying an entire manufacturing base to get cheap cars is short sighted.

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So do you think theyre maybe trying to refill some of those jobs?

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