“This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.

I feel like this is relevant to the sub. If not, feel free to remove.

  • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee
    41·
    4 hours ago

    I’ve worked in factories for the bulk of my life…be at your work station for a certain time, don’t be on the toilet too much, don’t talk too much, always be doing something even though you’re on target, managers or team leaders or whatever micromanaging you. It’s fucking wank.

  • WatDabney@fedia.io
    53·
    2 days ago

    You will slave for your neo-feudal overlords or you’ll be sent to prison, where you’ll slave for your neofeudal overlords.

    Or you’ll die. That’s okay too.

  • modifier@lemmy.ca
    22·
    1 day ago

    That’s what happens when we lionize “job creators” because we think that is the same as “wealth creators”

  • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    2 days ago

    Let me get this right… They want to roll back regulations, protections, & pay but now want us to work at the American factories so that manufacturing can come to the US. At that point might as well go live & work in Vietnam, Mexico or wherever else. At least there inflation isn’t as much as a problem so you can still afford a place to live.

  • Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    333·
    2 days ago

    That’s what public education trains young minds to be. Builders and maintainers of the infrastructure.

    • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
      16·
      1 day ago

      …Which is not the worst thing in the world if they’re treated and compensated fairly.
      But they won’t be, of course.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 day ago

      Best we can do is 1099 with pre-ACA “swiss cheese” cover healthcare including pre-existing conditions. As for retirement savings, we’ll place 1% of your salary into our the trump memecoin, but it doesn’t actually vest until you turn 65 so you can’t sell it before hand. How does that sound?

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
      91·
      1 day ago

      what benefits? the streets had to be painted red with communist and syndicalist blood for us to have it.

      • vegantomato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        5 hours ago

        Yes, communism leads to tens of millions being killed/starved, during and after the takeover. Meanwhile characters like Mao enjoyed luxury and women.

        Fuck communism.

    • WatDabney@fedia.io
      14·
      2 days ago

      Serfs get the benefit of living in a hovel on their lord’s manor so long as they continue to work to expand their lord’s fortune.

      Or if they’re not willing to do that, they get the benefit of a burial.

    • vegantomato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      These companies are making a bank out of planned obsolescence, and they can do so because their workers are cheap.

      In a throwaway culture, you do not want to be a generic factory worker, because your time and efforts will be worth almost nothing.

      It doesn’t have to be this way, but cheap labor from places like China has enabled this culture. If you don’t want to be a slave, you have to change that culture.

      Edit: As others have said, certain classes of people will be exempt from having to work in factories in his mind. It’s not this bastard’s children or grandchildren he is referring to of course.