[dzonga]

remember manufacturing in the U.S employs 10X more people than tech does.

trump tariffs are the reason the numbers are going dow.

[WalterGR]

> remember manufacturing in the U.S employs 10X more people than tech does.

That doesn’t sound right.

Where are you getting the numbers? Are you going by NAICS codes?

[dzonga]

Here - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP for Number of Manufacturing jobs down to 12 million. a Few years ago it was going up before trump came in again.

remember tech sector roughly employs 2 million people thereabouts.

[frogperson]

They want a poor and desperate workforce that they can more easily exploit.

[estearum]

No it's even worse: they (the admin) are just actual stupid people.