dzonga
a day ago
remember manufacturing in the U.S employs 10X more people than tech does.
trump tariffs are the reason the numbers are going dow.
WalterGR
21 hours ago
> 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
5 hours ago
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
a day ago
They want a poor and desperate workforce that they can more easily exploit.
estearum
20 hours ago
No it's even worse: they (the admin) are just actual stupid people.