U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Nutlick says the 'new model' is factory jobs for life

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

for you, your kids, and your grandkids

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says factory gigs are the “great jobs of the future” that Gen Z could work in for the "rest" of their life—and so could their grandkids. But the workforce’s youngest cohort probably won’t be running to fill the roles.

Some white collar workers may be on the brink of layoffs thanks to AI, but the Secretary of Commerce says they will always have a place in America’s factories. As the U.S. puts up high tariffs and curbs immigration, the administration hopes to fuel an intergenerational manufacturing boom.

“It’s time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future,” Howard Lutnick told CNBC this week.

“This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-secretary-commerce-says-model-172111761.html

Screwing little screws into I-Phones? You need to stop getting high on Trump's farts.

[Doodley]

1. He has no grip on reality.

[Dave Bowman]

2. Nutlick?

Thanks for the laugh.

[magicarpet]

3. Is that the same as sycophantic scrotum smorgasbord ?

... asking for a friend.

[Dave Bowman]

29. Lol, tell your friend that you made me laugh for real. 😂

[SheltieLover]

6. I'll bet those kids got teased in school.

[BOSSHOG]

4. You can be a slave for life

And so can your children (you’ll be forced to have many) and so will your grandchildren. Why? Because the Republican Party knows not or cares about democracy. They have found that hurting people is so much easier than helping people. Easy is a way of life for republicans.

[Abolishinist]

8. Come on, have you forgotten about their ironclad support of Unions?

Why, they'll change the 40 hour workweek. Overtime pay. Healthcare benefits.

It'll be heaven on earth!

[BOSSHOG]

10. And yet - we have YET to get to day one.

[msongs]

5. a life long factory job used to be the American dream back in the 50s. except you could live off

such a job then

[haele]

20. You still tended to have factory workers only survive 5 to 10 years

I lived in a few factory adjacent neighborhoods growing up; grandparents didn't have an easy time, lots of widows. From what I remember, lots of respiratory system problems and cancers tended to start developing in when they were their late 50's and early 60's.

[viva la]

7. This kind of man knows nothing about working class life--

My granddads and grandmothers worked at manual jobs all their lives, and 3 of them died before collecting Social Security. My parents and in-laws all had white-collar jobs, and lived into their late 80s.
Factory and other blue-collar work can be extremely hard on the body.
But maybe that's how he's going to "save" social security, by making sure the newer workers die young and never collect.

[Abolishinist]

9. Well, at least now under the current administration the coal miners

won't have to worry about black lung disease.

Not that it's gone away, just that it won't be diagnosed in the first place.

[WarGamer]

11. Just to add... in the decades around and before my birth...

Many of my family members worked at Caterpillar from age 18 til retirement...

Bought a house, got married and knocked out 3-4 kids with one spouse home... and had money for summer vacations each year

And then retired comfortably.

Most here are old enough to remember those days.

[LudwigPastorius]

21. Were your family UAW members, or were they represented by the UAW in their jobs?

Just curious, because Trump and his supporters pushing to "bring back manufacturing jobs" sure as hell don't want those to be union jobs.

[WarGamer]

25. I'm not sure when Caterpillar began it's relationship with the UAW...

But I wouldn't be surprised if the relationship goes back to the 50's?

Old School blue collar union member Democrats working with their hands...

[Hassler]

12. The five year olds will be the family breadwinners

Screwing in those tiny screws. So Mom and Dad will be free to pick veggies.

[jmowreader]

31. Like this, right?

(from the movie Crazy People, which contains possibly the best dialog in any film...the advertising executive who got shipped off to an insane asylum had written an ad for a movie called "The Freak," which Emery claimed in his ad would fuck you up for life. The ad got published, motivating millions to go to the theaters...

Moviegoer: "Fifteen bucks to see a movie?"
Ticket seller: "If you wanna be fucked up for life, that's what it costs!&quot

[spanone]

13. It's the Twilight Zone, there is no other answer.

[ms liberty]

14. That's not a freakin' "new model" it is the exact model it's been since factories were invented

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Seriously - I spent 15 years in the Accounting Department of a furniture manufacturer in a small county with numerous furniture factories. Factory work is already intergenerational and has been for oh, a hundred years or so.

[Skittles]

17. exactly what I thought

dude is literally talking about jobs from the past

[Tree Lady]

15. Considering they won't change

The minimum wage most factories will be in states like Texas with low taxes and low wages.

Won't be like our parents time where wife can stay home and you buy a house and car with your job and have a pension.

[Initech]

16. No sweatshops in the United States!

Fuck you Lutnick!!! Take your sweatshops and shove them you know where!

[hunter]

18. They'll lock you into the high-rise dorms at night to keep you safe...

... with nets outside the windows to catch you if you fall.

Excellent drugs will keep you comfortably numb.

It'll be great!

[Initech]

22. And if you oppose it, off to RFK Jr's wellness reeducation camps!

[haele]

19. And company towns for many those factories, just like the old days.

Exile for any employee that becomes uppity.

"Retirement" will probably be a "hospice" for those who can't work anymore.
Oh, the company won't kill anyone.

They'll just send any disabled kids, hurt or worn-out workers to be living in that nice health and community center outside the fence.
If those disabled kids can still do something useful, they'll probably come back. Heavily medicated, but back. Maybe.
I'm sure they're not going to start a worker breeding program, either.

[DFW]

23. As long as we'll all be working for the keiretsu

Do we all have to learn Japanese as well?

[sakabatou]

24. "Instead of an actual paycheck, we'll give you company money, so you can buy stuff at the company store!"

[NJCher]

26. This is so typical of republicans

They not only lack intelligence and compassion, but they have no vision whatsoever.

Isn’t it just so typical that they would think that we should return to the era of the 50s?

Freaking morons.

[lapfog_1]

27. let me show you the new factory ( in virtual and reality )

There will be a few humans... but not that many.

Howard Nut-lick is an idiot. Nobody is going to be putting little screws into I-phones in the USA.

[sinkingfeeling]

28. While other countries will provide high tech jobs for alternate energy, biological research

and construction of cheap, efficient housing.

[stumpysbear]

30. These people are complete and utter morons

[Kid Berwyn]

32. "The best slave is the one who thinks he is free."

Like Lutnick is channeling Goethe.

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities, Book II, Chapter 5

[peggysue2]

33. Lutnick is a fool

A national embarrassment on so many levels as he defends the indefensible. I caught this statement about the 'thrilling' possibility of Americans tied to factory work, a legacy arrangement with multiple generations working for their corporate overlords while they screw tiny little screws into . . . whatever.

Think about it! We can return to corporate towns and corporate script, a womb to tomb existence.

Happy, happy days!

These people are so removed from the ordinary lives of American citizens that they really think this sort of 'job security' and certainty is what human beings desire. Forget aspirations or agency or a sense of freedom. Big Brother has the answer--a lifetime grind facilitated by billionaires.

What could go wrong?

Summer is Coming! Lamp posts are too good for these mental midgets.