You assume service industry means everyone is doing high paying mental work? Not everyone is capable of being a doctor or a lawyer. For most people working in the “service industry” they are providing services to the upper class. Maids, waiters, cleaners, cooks, delivery drivers. We don’t pay teachers living wages. The country only needs so many accountants. Anything tech or customer service related that can be outsourced is sent to India.

Just like a stock portfolio, the economy is healthier if it is diversified. That means we need to bring back manufacturing. Maybe then, people besides just lawyers, doctors, and engineers will be able to afford to go to a restaurant.

The tariffs were planned. Presidents generally roll out the ‘eating your vegetables’ policies in their second term. Of course its going to drive up prices, that is the point. The small business that start making domestic goods will make good money. The small businesses that just dropship crap from Temu and Alibaba will go out of business. The dollar was already disappearing as the global reserve currency before Trump.

We need to NOT accept that manufacturing is behind us. NEVER accept failure.

50 years of manufacturing job loss can’t be fixed in one presidential term. Nicocado didn’t lose all that weight in one week. Change can be hard and painful. But not changing would be giving up on the next generation. He might be rude, he might be orange, but by god he is addressing the elephant in the room everyone else is ignoring.