Tech jobs, robots are Lutnick’s vision for America’s “manufacturing renaissance”

From the article

* Speaking on [CNBC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPip86kGWcY&ab_channel=CNBCTelevision), he said that with the use of robotics, factories are “going to see the greatest surge in training for what we call trade craft — teaching people how to be robotics, mechanics, engineers and electricians for high tech factories.”
* On [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/business/video/howard-lutnick-trump-tariffs-negotiate-digvid), Lutnick said, “We use robotics here. It’s cheaper than cheap labor overseas.” He added, “The renaissance will be the greatest factories in the world, high-tech people. What are the jobs Americans are going to have? We are going to have mechanics who fix robotics.”
* On [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370957709112)’ Hannity on Wednesday, Lutnick touted that “a high school-educated workforce is going to get trained to do robot mechanic,” adding that it’ll bring the “coolest” and “highest-paying jobs” to the U.S.

Perhaps they should have thought about building the robots before imposing idiotic economic policy that will make the parts for all these robots *significantly* more expensive?

These fucking morons are all ignoring why China has been so successful.

China INVESTS back into itself,  it has an industrial policy and it directs resources into it. It does not let the billionaires control the government.

The US does the opposite. It invests its wealth in a handful of individuals, and gives tax breaks to increase that wealth. It has had ZERO industrial policy for the last 60 years(save for about 2 years under Biden), it directs resources haphazardly through the market. The billionaires control everything. 

The US still thinks the free market can effectively create industrial policy and build massive projects via wall street investment.

We are fucked.

Ohh I knew it. I told people a bit ago that with companies like Tesla cozying up to this admin, tech coming from multiple companies for human-like robots, and the aggressive trade war and talks of re-shoring manufacturing, the plan wasn’t to give people jobs but to increase efficiency and margin for companies by employing automation and robotics. Americans are too expensive to employ in manufacturing en masse without significantly worsening their work environment. 

You need people for maintenance and coding; those people need places outside the workplace, like shops, bars, parks etc; those also need to be staffed; you need fucking people for even the dumbest conservative wetdream.

Famous “maga techies”. Those guys kill it in robotics and it.