RE: TPP is dead
November 13, 2016 at 2:39 am
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2016 at 2:41 am by SteelCurtain.)
Trade deals are good for prices and exports, bad for certain kinds of jobs.
There is a trade off. So while manufacturing jobs go away (and they are going away anyways with the advancement of technology), products get cheaper and there are more customers if you make something exportable. Overall, TPP would have been better for US consumers and exporters, (the former group is all of us) but would have had a not insignificant effect on manufacturing jobs.
To me, manufacturing jobs are like coal jobs, if you are planning on a future there, you're going to be up shit's creek. I work in a massive automotive plant, and there couldn't be a more stark difference between the crew manning the machining line that I work with (which is closing next week after being in service for 18 years) and the brand new machining area they just built for the big V8. Three times the crew required on the Ecotec engine (the old line). The new line is 1/2 the size, robots do more than just pick shit up and move it to the next station. Each station has articulating 3D robots that do everything. Even the visual inspections are done by infrared camera. The only reason machinists are there is to do bench tests on every 50th part.
The bulk of the crew is now young electricians with an IT background, because all of these machines are basically huge PLDs.
Robots and computers are taking all of the jobs, let's stop blaming trade deals.
There is a trade off. So while manufacturing jobs go away (and they are going away anyways with the advancement of technology), products get cheaper and there are more customers if you make something exportable. Overall, TPP would have been better for US consumers and exporters, (the former group is all of us) but would have had a not insignificant effect on manufacturing jobs.
To me, manufacturing jobs are like coal jobs, if you are planning on a future there, you're going to be up shit's creek. I work in a massive automotive plant, and there couldn't be a more stark difference between the crew manning the machining line that I work with (which is closing next week after being in service for 18 years) and the brand new machining area they just built for the big V8. Three times the crew required on the Ecotec engine (the old line). The new line is 1/2 the size, robots do more than just pick shit up and move it to the next station. Each station has articulating 3D robots that do everything. Even the visual inspections are done by infrared camera. The only reason machinists are there is to do bench tests on every 50th part.
The bulk of the crew is now young electricians with an IT background, because all of these machines are basically huge PLDs.
Robots and computers are taking all of the jobs, let's stop blaming trade deals.
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