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[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 96 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Okay then pay them a livable wage, and then they will be successful. Fucking billionaires need to put their money where their mouth is. A bunch of asshats

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

They do get paid well...

For example, Lutnick claimed that technician jobs are promising gigs with a low barrier to entry, that can pay anywhere between $70,000 to $90,000 at the onset—no college degree required.

The issue is the quantity of these jobs, not the quality.

And once you're in, you're in...

And not in a good way, you'll get used to that 70k lifestyle in a year or two, but if you lose your job for any reason, there's insane competition for the few spots you're qualified for. And anything outside of this, you'll never make that match.

They'll pay a little more to a very small amount of employees if it creates a captive and trained workforce.

So, you're right that "corporations are bad" you just don't under the long game and the corporations do.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean those are technicians, not factory workers. For those see: https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes519199.htm

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 59 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

OK then make traditional factory jobs pay well enough to own a house and see your children through college again.
A factory worker makes less today than they did in the 50's!!! Because the 1% has managed to grab all the money in their infinite greed. The money grab of the rich is the biggest heist in the history of mankind.

Also not every billionaire needs to flaunt with how enormously ignorant they are on basic issues of society.
The rich need to be taxed on their fortune. Nobody needs to be as rich as the 1%.

[–] phed@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

politicians, officials, scotus, those in positions of power, will steal, imbezzle, misuse any funds gained. lobbying should be illegal. this all needs to go or it amounts to little gained.

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 38 points 4 months ago (13 children)

No problem, just make a single income from one partner working a factory job enough money to live a comfortable middle class life again. 

Jobs a good'un

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[–] butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] phed@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

Lead by examples, techbros!

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

Gonna start paying factory workers six figures are you? If not piss off!

[–] PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't disagree with this take but coming out of this billionaires mouth I feel he means it in a different way.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Guaranteed he does mean it in a different way, that people should come work for his suppliers like TSMC at substandard wages only to be discarded and laid off in a few years when markets and demand shifts elsewhere.

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fuck Jensen Huang in the ass with a cactus, sideways.

I've worked in more than one manufacturing plant and it's miserable even on the IT side; and that's with air conditioning.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Slavery, he means Slavery.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Woah woah woah. Capitalism is the new terminology that's what replaced slavery. Also why the aristocrats were all in.

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

True, I suppose, but factory jobs? I thought those dried up when we gave China all our manufacturing.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah he's not wrong, but US manufacturing is a shadow of its former self.

Trades like plumbing, electrical, and HVAC still have plenty of demand though.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Put your money where your mouth is and open a factory and pay above average wages, Jensen.

You literally run a company that doesn’t manufacture anything itself but designs for others to manufacture.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

He should prove it to us.

Put your money where your mouth is, bitch.

[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 4 months ago
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Looking at Nvidia…. Of over 1,000 job openings USA, only one matches keyboard “technician”. It’s a marketing job requiring a bachelors degree and three years experience

I also see a section of their website on campus recruiting and globally there are college internships.

This might be a good place for the NVidia CEO to start looking.

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[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 12 points 4 months ago

All he really means is people should learn to accept sub minimum wage and be happy they have a shitty job.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

With poor labor protections and shitty health care, factory jobs aren't what they were 50 years ago. It's a work-until-you-die career.

[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Fuck that piece of shit. I hope the AI bubble bursts soon and he loses his job and money. Has to work in a factory in unsafe conditions, gets into a horrible accident, becomes paralyzed and shits and pisses in his pants for the rest of his lives.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Get fucked, you thief!

[–] CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 4 months ago

Does getting rich just make people stupid?

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Ok but we want the factory jobs from the 50’s that paid one worker an entire family’s living wage. We should go to the 1950’s wealth tax rate of 90% to achieve this. I think what he means is impoverished guilded age slavery though.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

We should go to the 1950’s wealth tax rate of 90% to achieve this.

The 90% tax rate wasn't what made factory pay cover a family of four. Expropriated wealth from the third world, combined with a strong export market for finished goods, allowed Americans to import raw materials at near-zero cost and transform that functionally "free" material into the quality of life improvements they valued.

Also, that high quality of life was reserved largely for the industrial north. Gulf Coast / West Coast states wouldn't see the jump in prosperity until the oil boom of the 70s and the migration of finance capital into Florida, Texas, and California. And even then, it was a very "Whites Only" kind of prosperity, with labor provided by the racial underclass going to cheap housing and foodstuffs and utilities enjoyed by the American middle class.

By the mid-90s, a lot of the benefits of being a white working class adult had diffused to the racial underclasses. White people no longer felt "rich" because they were competing for homes and jobs and consumables with the historically impoverished PoC. Our cheap consumables were increasingly imported from overseas while our labor force was focused towards the professional (educated) and service (uneducated) sectors. We maintained a policy of low inflation through exporting dollars abroad. We expanded privatization to goose our rate of employment with tons of make-work and bullshit jobs. And we reduced taxes in order to incentivize private capital improvements and consumer spending.

What fucked us in the end wasn't a lower tax rate, it was a global post-WW2 economic recovery. Once we could no longer spend overpriced American dollars for cheap foreign materials, American buying power declined. Foreign countries began to consume their own quality-of-life products, which boosted American investments abroad but hobbled American consumption at home.

I think what he means is impoverished guilded age slavery though.

He's asking for Americans to return to the position of the labor underclass at home, in order to prop up a "White" leisure class at the expense of a PoC working class. That doesn't necessarily mean "slavery" (although you can't help look sideways at all these new prisons we're building). It does mean working class Americans continue to lose access to consumption as they fall into competition with their BRICS working class peers.

And it likely means we return to "Whites Only" domestic policies, in order to guarantee a certain fraction of the public access to preferable living conditions at the added expense of PoC.

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

UBI really needed to happen before AI and advanced robots. Really interested to see how China handles this.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

"You need to become a factory worker!" Meanwhile, factories are trying to automate every job possible.

[–] ohshittheyknow@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 4 months ago
[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

What a piece of shit.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Those jobs are all getting automated. And jobs that used to pay decent wages like trucking and being a taxi driver are slotted to be automated away, too.

Same for many, many white collar jobs that were supposed to be the path out of this trap of poverty that the rust belt and other places were thrown into, starting in the 70s. A whole lot of MBAs think that they need to get rid of all the "excess" people on payroll...

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Trades too.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

start with yourself, bitch. give your money to charity and we’ll find you a nice line job at a meat packing plant.

jensen huang, finding success for you will mean avoiding the guillotine.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Kind of the whole point of the "Dirty Jobs" show.

Two kinds of jobs:

One, where you need a shower before you go to work.

Two, where you need a shower when you get home from work.

We value One and devalue Two. NGL, I've done both, I don't know, physically, that I could go back to Two.

Bonus, Three, can't remember the last time you showered because you work from home. LOL.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hate this line of thinking, because everyone should be able to get as much education as possible. It's a net benefit to society. If someone wants to get a PhD and then go work in a factory it should be a valid career path, not one which requires them to gamble on an academic career in order to justify the extra education.

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[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Low pay, terrible work condition

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

People need to find living wages in traditional factory jobs again first

That being said, as someone who works in manufacturing as a professional, it can be decent work if you're either an educated professional or unionized (ideally as a tradesperson)

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

Let's just ignore the massive wage suppression and consolidation of assets and whatever. Let's ignore the fragility that's been intentionally created in the supply chain with staffing levels and anti transit legislation.

Let's ignore everything but capital investment and long term reliability plans. If you look at the current state of manufacturing in most places and do a hard assessment on how much they are putting back into facilities to keep them running efficiently. Now you easily sum up a response to this with a very effective: LOL fuckwit.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

But every writer for Elle magazine needs a PhD.

Hey, let’s get those factory jobs paying 50 to 75 dollars an hour and we have a deal. Otherwise, goan fuck yourself.

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