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refurb04/03/20253 repliesview on HN

How about steel mill jobs paying $35/hr?

Saying Americans haven’t been hurt they’ve benefited applies to white collar workers only - no change to jobs and cheaper goods.


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threeseed04/03/2025

Plenty of white collar jobs have moved overseas e.g. IT, marketing, call centres. Especially with remote work.

The point is that as a country it has adapted by people moving into industries that aren't able to be easily outsourced.

vkou04/03/2025

The US today produces more steel than it ever has in its history, with ~1/10th of its peak workforce.

Those jobs aren't coming back.

palmotea04/03/2025

>>> Americans have been hurt for 50 years

>> No they haven't. They've benefitted from it.

> Saying Americans haven’t been hurt they’ve benefited applies to white collar workers only - no change to jobs and cheaper goods.

And that's a big reason why Trump won: white collar workers, like the GP, lecturing blue collar workers, while being ignorant of their actual situation.

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