“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,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.

https://archive.is/wGp2F

So slavery as indentured servitude is the American future. Way to “new model” the old model.

  • Cosmoooooooo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    12 days ago

    They’ll enslave every last person on the planet if you let them. You have to fight back, or that’s your future. That’s everyone’s future.

  • Gowron_Howard@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    12 days ago

    That’s rich coming from a group of people who haven’t collectively worked a single day in their lives.

  • selkiesidhe@lemm.ee
    24·
    12 days ago

    Yeah you and your kids and their kids… All slaving away in poor conditions, at the same time.

    No retirement for the old. Child labor. Shitty conditions with zero worker protections. Low pay to keep you in poverty. All while the rich sit on their lazy fat asses like the parasites they are…

    • Ænima@lemm.ee
      7·
      12 days ago

      That shit died, or suffered a major blow under Reagan. It’s only been downhill since. I’m old enough to remember the yearly increases to the federal minimum wage before they stopped all that at like $7.25. I think my first job paid $6.40. Every time this dude is on TV he’s grinning like some doofus or laughing too hard from the lukewarm farts leaking from trump’s mouth.

  • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
    16·
    12 days ago

    ha. see, the thing is… no. make me. i got a bullet for every single fucking one of you that tries to fuck my genuinely good life up. i figured out how to escape this shit life and i’m never going back. i ain’t got no kids so i don’t have to worry about any of this. yall have all fucked this world up beyond recognition and i will fucking kill you if you try to drag me down into your bullshit.

    • Zenith@lemm.ee
      11·
      12 days ago

      That’s the thing, they don’t care if you work there, they won’t make you, you’ll just starve to death in the street or die from lack of medical care or some previously preventable problem. You likely would never be forced to work but not working will be essentially choosing slow suicide

      • GroundedGator@lemmy.world
        3·
        12 days ago

        Strip me off my decent life and try to make me work labor. I will. But my incompetence will be the greatest incompetence. My wages will do nothing but pay for my mistakes and I will just keep making them.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
    6·
    11 days ago

    Seems that they want to repeat the USSR of 70s, just capitalist and without the revolution and industrialization and mass repressions preceding stages, and rather right-wing.

    Maybe they want that to avoid the same fate due to avoiding state capitalism and overregulation combined with politics inside the bureaucratic machine. If they are moderately smart.

    Or maybe they just want to repeat the same track with modern technologies. Then it’ll suck.

    • futatorius@lemm.ee
      1·
      9 days ago

      Seems that they want to repeat the USSR of 70s

      State capitalism with nationalist elements.

  • Landless2029@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 days ago

    I think in a other timeline I’d be very happy working in a factory for my career. Building something or maintaining the systems. Putting in a hard days work and going home feeling proud I did a good job.

    Supporting my 2 kids, stay at home wife and owning my own home with only my income.
    My kids needs were all met. All utilities paid up, school supplies and toys, fridge always fully stocked.
    My job was secure. 20+ years at the company with a competative salary. My job is secure and safe with my union protecting me. Might retire in 30 or so years with a solid pension and a cool 50 at the factory.
    No need to get a job after I retire. Just enjoy my time with my new grandkids my children are happy to have in a strong economy.

    But. We’re not in the fucking twilight zone.
    The American Dream was taken from the masses and they want us “back on the line” for pennies on the dollar in profits.

    “I make a penny while the boss makes a dime. That’s why I sit on company time.”

    No. We now make a penny while the CEOs make thousands and were left hungry, homeless and sick.

    Get the fuck out of here with that shit.

    • futatorius@lemm.ee
      1·
      9 days ago

      And while you’d be OK with one job for life, for many of us, that’s a vision of living hell, no matter how good the working conditions might be. And those working conditions would be shit. Nutlick’s “vision” is of multigenerational wage slavery, with no environmental or safety protections, no constraints on abusive employment practices, nothing but immiseration.

      Are you taking orders? Or are you taking over?