The guy from SmarterEveryDay is making an American made bbq scrubber. And he tried to source everything from American companies only to find out the parts were only designed in the US but manufactured abroad. He basically had to make every part himself to be sure it’s completely made in America.
And it’s still not entirely made in America lol
In a way that shows what is intended by protectionist measures, irrespective of whether they work in the current situation or how they are implemented by the Trump admin.
True. But either way with these tariffs prices are going up and margins go down even if a business makes and sources everything on home soil. Which in turn means the American standard of living will go down since people can buy less even in the best case scenario.
The logic of protectionism is that then more Americans find work manufacturing these things, which would in turn increase the standard of living.
There is no doubt that the US population fared best, when most of the economy revolved around manufacturing and Chinas rise of the middle class has been the result of manufacturing being offshored from countries like the US and in the EU, coinciding with a downfall of the middle class in the respective countries.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think that we would be able to get back to these “good old days” (in economic terms, not in other aspects) with the tariff regime of Trump. Also onshoring of manufacturing only can do so much if a factory that used to employ a thousand workers now brings the same output with a hundred workers because of higher automation.
As long as the distribution of wealth and return on capital is not changed fundamentally, we will not get back a broad middle class enjoying economic security.
There is no doubt that the US population fared best, when most of the economy revolved around manufacturing
Was that back when the top marginal tax rate was over 90% and the effective corporate tax rate was over 50%?
I wonder why the population fared best back then… Oh well, I guess we’ll never know. It must have been due to there being manufacturing jobs, right? Yeah lets just say that.
There is no doubt that the US population fared best, when most of the economy revolved around manufacturing
This was only true to the extent of the profit margins for manufacturing.
Higher margin industries leave more wealth/money to spend on life quality. If your standard of living costs more than manufacturing will support, you’ll need to downgrade.
Software, design, innovation, capitalism, high tech all have much higher margins than manufacturing. Silicon valley, and other tech hubs will be impoverished by switching to manufacturing.
What industries are less profitable than US manufacturing? Which of them can be dispensed with?
There is no standard of living in america, it greatly depends on where you live, what groups you are part of, and how much income you can generate. The difference now is that its not just the poorest that need to deal with this anymore.
The brush also sells for like $80 so uhhhh, another side effect of those measures.
Nike won’t build a plant in the U.S. and pay U.S. citizens $25/hour to make shoes.
Even with shipping and a multi-100% import tariff it would still be cheaper to make all that shit in Vietnam.
Not that the retail cost of Nike shoes is linked to the cost of production anyway. You’ve always been paying the premium for the logo.
The only way it can be viable in the US is if you automate everything. But even then, it’s cheaper to operate an automated factory in Vietnam than it is to operate an automated factory in the US.
The only way it can be viable in the US is if you automate everything.
Using only American-made robotics? lol
Yeah, but the bullshit spewing con artist they voted for said other countries pay the tariffs!
Like Mexico paid for the wall lol
“Why is equipment going up we should be charging finished products”, dumbfuck what do you think went into that equipment?
Give him raw ore and let him figure it out then
(ore was imported.)
I had to break the poor news to my boomers too. They wanted Japanese made computers, not Chinese, and I was forced to wake them up.
This video was so eye-opening and I really applaud Dustin for presenting it so thoughtfully and in a way I hope everyone can appreciate, regardless of their political stance.
Send like a giant infomercial to me
It is, but also answers a lot of the complex questions allistics do not ponder.
Thanks for sharing this. What’s funny is he didn’t even mention another reason why buying one higher quality item is better than dozens of cheap one: ressource usage and pollution.
The product they designed is supposed to be disposable, since it’s essentially a scrubber🧽.
The chain⛓️ only lasts so many scraps, and then the screw🔩 breaks down. I don’t even keep my toilet🚽🧽 after a month~. It’s too unsanitary at that point.What in the AI garbage fuck is this?
Emojis are our gift to you westerners. What are you confused about?
Please don’t tell me you reuse your toilet bowl scrubber forever.
Pfft. The ancient Egyptians first created emojis.
You use the word “AI” like right wingers use “woke”. It’s not a good look.
So, wait, the chainmail isn’t made in America? What’s the fucking point?!?
The 🇮🇳 “sources,” correct. These are batch deals. For so many 🇺🇲 chain that the 🇺🇲 manufacturer can’t produce, the rest they are forced to buy from 🇨🇳.
The “fuck your feelings” crowd voted based on their feelings and ignored logic and thought their faith in blatant denial would pan out for them. Haha.
FYFAFO?
Fucking Yokels Fucked Around and Found Out?
Fuck Your Feelings And Find Out
…but, they’d never eat MY face!!!..
Ofc the racist hiding behind tariffs was named Josh.
Isn’t steel under heavy tariffs like forever?
Trump even got into a trade war with the EU over it back in his first term.
and CHINA, dont forget about the soybeans, that never recovered either.
The Dipshit keeps raising it every time he gets into office. Somehow thinking that raising the price of one of the most common manufacturing materials will bring back manufacturing
I studied this weird thing in school how was it called again uuuh… Ah yes ! Globalizingy thing something
well get to work, and make your own knives.
There is plenty of info on the net on how to make steel from dirt and rocks.
It’s been done for a few thousands of years with what are essentially diy tools from scratch.
Actually not a bad skill to acquire for the coming societal collapse.
Not surprising at all. These people voted for him. They’re DUMB!
Include it in the price as a separate line called “Trump’s tarrifs”.
Didn’t they show early on (on an obv staged) Amazon case that is “not OK”?
Prob automatically triggers deportation :D.Yup.
Bezos stopped sucking Trump’s cock for a minute there, but then Trump made him start up again. Wonder what a pedo’s dick in your mouth tastes like. Ask Jeff Bezos I guess.
“Just dig up American metal with American workers!!”
So easy, ha haa the EU!
/js
Brexit was just the rehearsal for what the US is doing to itself
Normally you’d start with a very small tariff and increase that on a regular schedule over a few years so businesses in the whole supply chain can anticipate and adjust in a reasonable stable environment.
It’s the opposite of declaring liberation day and chickening out repeatedly. Of course, doing the opposite of good policy also has the opposite result. Businesses are leaving USA. It’s easier to produce in another country in a stable environment and import the final product, and pay tariffs on it, only once.
That last bit is what people don’t understand.
If you’re an auto manufacturer, and you are given the choice to pay 50%+ tarrifs on your raw materials before selling your car that now has to be much, much more expensive due to the tarrifs. Or you could build the car in Europe, pay none of those tarrifs on parts, and export it to the US where the buyers will pay a 15% tarrif after the recent deal with the EU.
So it’s more profitable for the manufacturers and cheaper for the consumers to shut down US auto plants and move everything to Europe.
Art of the Deal.
