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Originally Posted by ballinisahabit
This is what I've never understood about the manufacturing argument. Why would you want those jobs?
a. Those jobs are dying and being replaced by automation. Your gonna give people jobs just to eventually lay them off.
b. The real value is created in the engineering/creative not manufacturing of a product. For example, iPhones value is largely realized by Apple not Foxconn. We should focus on creating STEM type jobs, which are higher paying and add a greater value to the economy.
c. How are 3rd world countries supposed to buy US imports if they lose the jobs that are growing their economies?
d. The consumer is going to pay the higher costs, and US companies are going to have less sales as a result.
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Because the manufacturing argument speaks to the heart of the Trump supporter: a middle aged man with less than average education who probably lost his job in manufacturing and could not find an as good or better paying job...