When we priced a U.S.-made version of our flagship product 85% higher than our Chinese-made one, 25,650 customers had the chance to vote with their wallets. Here’s what happened. As small business owners, we’ve heard it a thousand times: “I’d gladly pay more to support American-made.” We wanted to believe it. So we put
That’s… you realize not everyone only wants jobs to exist because they want the job themselves…. Right?
Like I’m pretty sure everyone would agree we need garbage trucks and janitors but boy do I have a surprise for you about how many would take those jobs.
Really we need public works projects, like nationalizing the internet and paying to expand access to it instead of allowing ISPs to gouge the fuck out of everyone for years. But I mean, manufacturing also probably would not be bad so we can be less reliant on people we like to try and piss off.
Yeah and people fucking mistreat those workers too and say they shouldn’t be allowed to strike, etc.
I… what? Like… yeah… most jobs still fucking suck. we need a lot of improvements. I never said the jobs were perfect, pay was perfect, unions were perfect, or anything. Just that… yeah there are jobs that exist that people would agree are important even if they themselves do not wish to do them, and 20-25% of the country being willing to do them (even if half of those aren’t real) is still like 20 million people getting jobs.
Maybe I’m reading your posts wrong but you’re interpreting the discrepancy in “want factory jobs” and “will work factory jobs” charitably while I understand it as American treatlerism and part of a pattern of Americans wanting their treats at the expense of others, such as like how they want fire fighters, ambulances, 24 hour shopping, etc. and then also usually treat them like shit on top of that as part of class domination/exploitation.
I mean… idk I don’t expect 80% of the country to do one single type of job? That’s very silly? But I can see people think we should have less reliance other countries, while not necessarily wanting to do that themselves, but also 25% of the country is still… a lot of fucking people.
But yes, people do treat workers like shit in this country a lot which honestly baffles me to see people cannot understand people working are still people.