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 | parent | next [-]

> 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 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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 | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	estearum 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No it's even worse: they (the admin) are just actual stupid people.