Crushed by the wheels of industry
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Billionaire Howard Lutnick has a vision for Americans who aren’t billionaires: Tending robots and fixing HVAC in factories. Forever.
You go to the community colleges and you train people. So all the community colleges around here, Arizona State or the Grand Canyon. All these community colleges here are training people right now, technicians. And these are really good paying jobs. They start at 70s, 80s, 90 thousand dollars. These are trade craft.
It’s time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. You know, this is the new model where you work in these kind of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. You know, we let the auto plants go overseas. Right now, you should see an auto plant. It’s highly automated. But the people, the four or five thousand people who work there, they are trained to take care of those robotic arms. They’re trained to keep the air conditioning
Did he say community college? He meant high school.
This is high school educated, great jobs that start in 80s and 90 thousands and go up to one hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand dollars.
Why not make it grade school if you’re making shit up? Get the next herd of workers started while they’re young. It isn’t like they would be doing anything else for the rest of their lives, if old Looter Lutnick has his way.
Americans are going to work in factories just like this on great, high paying jobs. They are going to be trained as technicians and they’re going to have the new industrial revolution. Let’s call it the AI industrial revolution.
A.I. = Asshole Interred because he pulled that one out of his ass. But I’m sure the desire for another period notable for worker exploitation is sincere. More people leaving rural areas for cities? Probably not so much.
And this is going to give them great jobs and their children are going to have these great jobs. And we’re going to go back to the society we knew. But with factories that look like this, extraordinary factories.
The society “we” knew. Plus fewer jobs because of robots and minus any chance of employment outside of the factory for oneself or one’s descendants. Or the highest levels of union membership. Or a salary that is even close to supporting the single-earner multiple dependents lifestyle that “we” knew if “we” think the past was like Leave it to Beaver episodes.
And there’s still the tiny hurdle of getting those factories built.
Lutnick is symptomatic of one of the worst things about the GOP: Even the highest ranking members believe daft shit that you used to have to crawl through the bottom of the internet to find.
And there’s also the barely concealed contempt for anyone who doesn’t have a few million dollars in couch change. Recall that last month Lutnick claimed that only a crook would complain if their Social Security payment was a month late. This month he’s peddling a dystopian vision for people who aren’t millionaires, because that’s what he thinks is good enough for them.
At least until the robots learn to repair themselves and the HVAC systems.
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