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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (329752)	4/5/2025 4:52:33 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 354334

What makes you think that a US shirt factory worker could afford to buy the shirts he makes unless he got an employee discount or even then? 10 years from now no one will be making shirts. Everything from loading the material into the backdoor and carting it out the front will be handled by AI systems and bots. For most of my life I made my living writing code and selling it. Last week my daughter called me and said, "Dad, I've a new idea for a therapy device." She then went on to describe a computer "game" with complex figures and features, 3-d imagery, sound, and 3-d motion on the screen, and all that goes with it. In 20 minutes I had a functioning prototype working on my PC, complete with sound and all movement. With a little more terminology and skill she could have just done it herself. No designer nor coder needed. Even the required touch-up work can be done by giving verbal instructions to my PC, with it cranking out a finished product. All responsive for any modern device. I didn't write one line of code. The point here is that in the very near term, we can expect that the entire notion of "what is work" is changing -- there is simply no reason one needs workers to make shirts today. A person who can come up with $2,500 to invest can literally start making shirts in their home without ever touching a sewing needle or scissors. Profitably. Times are changing. Values are changing. We have to adapt or China will own everything.

To: Lane3 who wrote (329752)	4/5/2025 5:55:57 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Respond to of 354334

What makes you think that a US shirt factory worker could afford to buy the shirts he makes unless he got an employee discount or even then? Then they should buy used, make their own or do without. Just like in any other third world country. Noodles has argued in the past that American workers should make no more than workers in other countries. At least he did under Dubya, but he also claimed to be a libertarian back then, also. So things might have changed. Besides, just look at what is happening now. Europe wants to build weapons now because of the way the US is acting. But, we can bring shirt manufacturing back. So we are trading high margin goods, made by high wage workers for low margin goods made by machines and/or slave or convict labor. Because I expect convict labor to be a booming source of labor in the country. Abbott should push the Texas model. Florida is all in on child labor. So there are pools of potentially low or no cost labor in the US. It depends on how badly you want it.