Das Weiße Haus möchte, dass Tarife uns Jobs zurückbringen. Sie könnten stattdessen die KI -Automatisierung beschleunigen

From the article: Announcing his tariffs in the White House Rose Garden last week, President Trump said the move would help reopen shuttered car factories in Michigan and bring various other jobs back to the U.S.

“The president wants to increase manufacturing jobs here in the United States of America,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt added on Tuesday. “He wants them to come back home.”

But rather than enticing companies to create new jobs in the U.S., economists say, the new tariffs—bolstered by recent advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics—could instead increase incentives for companies to automate human labor entirely.

“There’s no reason whatsoever to believe that this is going to bring back a lot of jobs,” says Carl Benedikt Frey, an economist and professor of AI & work at Oxford University. “Costs are higher in the United States. That means there’s an even stronger economic incentive to find ways of automating even more tasks.”

In other words: when labor costs are low—like they are in Vietnam—it’s usually not worth it for companies to invest in the expensive up-front costs of automating human labor. But if companies are forced to move their labor to more expensive countries, like the U.S., that cost-benefit calculation changes drastically.

To be sure, experts note that tariffs may not immediately lead to more automation. Automating manufacturing jobs often requires companies to make significant investments in physical machinery, which tariffs are likely to make more expensive. In a time of economic turmoil, companies also usually hold off on making big capital expenditures.

This is always about corporate greed. They. Do. Not. Care!

>White House Wants Tariffs to Bring Back U.S. Jobs

Just watch the netflix documentary American Factory. It will never work.

First of all, never buy the cover story for a Trump initiative. See also Xi, Putin, Erdogan. This is a framing of the issues failure given the history of such types.

In this instance, as every actual expert in the field has stressed, Trump tariffs are bad faith and built to fail from the outset when combined with evil dictatorship foreign policy (including Musk funding extremists in all top European nations for the express purpose of exporting dictatorship) and attempts at the same in domestic policy. Proper tariff policy relies upon gentler and more targeted measures in response to legitimate abuses. None of that is present here except as a bullshit cover story.

I cannot stress enough how united the world will be to slow the fall into totalitarianism of the wealthiest economy and most destructive force in history. They will not be caving and simply cannot afford to as an existential matter. The bond market flex proves this with it’s brilliant if obvious ploy to attack the US in its weak-point debt situation ironically worsened immensely by Trump’s tax cut mainly to his donor class that lasted beyond his first term as well as his disastrous covid mismanagement.

Yes the automation is going to happen regardless.
It’s good then, to bring as much manufacturing locally as we can. Not all countries can automate right away so those that can will likely dominate the globe. Eventually everyone will be automated but that will take a while.

„White House wants…“ is a pretty clear beginning to something that is based on one/many lies.

All according to plan. None of the jobs they are promising to bring back even exist anymore. It’s like if they promised to bring back field threshing with a scythe.

70% of the population used to be directly employed in farming. Farming become highly automated, the manual labor harvesting jobs went away, and now its ~11%, including fishing.

Even if 100% of the auto manufacturing returns to the U.S. Robots do most of the stuff that humans used to do. It’s the same for almost every manufacturing industry with the exception of clothing, where we don’t have robots that are particularly good at sewing.

The jobs don’t exist the way they did when they were lost. All the people in the rust belt with no education hoping their factories will open back up, and they will be back on the assembly line are sadly ignorant to the current state of manufacturing.

There will be jobs, for skilled labor with college degrees that can maintain, retool, and reprogram robots, not the people with a high school diploma.

Let’s get real:

The White House is not using tariffs to bring back jobs.

The White House is using the threat of tariffs to manipulate markets for the benefit of Trump and other billionaire oligarchs.

No company will invest in the US with the current volatility.

If they think tariffs are going to “bring back jobs”, they have zero understanding of how any of that works.

It’s already having the reverse effect.

They don’t care about bringing back jobs. They just want to replace taxes on the wealthy with tariffs on the working class.

If anyone thinks these people care about the u.s. or it’s citizens, they are delusional.