In a bizarre, dystopian statement, Trump’s Secretary of Commerce said that the new model for workers, and their children and grandchildren, is to work their entire lives in a factory but to do so as repairmen and women for the factory robots.
“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.
While Lutnick said this is all part of President Trump’s larger plan to make America more independent from foreign imports and services, the administration’s targeted deportation of immigrants has left many domestic manufacturers scrambling for labor. To keep up with supply, people have to fill the plant jobs, and Lutnick thinks technicians tending to factory robots are the next hot gig.
‘You gotta remember these plants, all these automated arms and stuff, they need to be fixed. They all need a technician to fix them,’ he said. ‘This is tradecraft, this is high school-educated, great jobs.'”
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