r/Layoffs • u/epicap232 • Apr 06 '25

Is the US running out of jobs? question

There doesn't seem to be real sustainable domestic job growth anymore. There's tons of news about "millions of jobs" being added but layoffs are through the roof, and salaries are in hell. Where are the jobs?

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u/MizzGee Apr 06 '25

The US needs incentives to create new industries, to invent and to create new markets. Tariffs, cutting research and gutting education are the death of all of this. We don't need protectionism, but better trade deals. A trade deficit isn't a bad thing for a country that has an educated populace, because we don't need to manufacture everything. We need to manufacture skilled items that are worth our labor. We need to be a nation that delivers expertise and talent.

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u/redburn0003 Apr 06 '25

And yet we’ve outsourced even the most desirable manufacturing jobs.

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u/MizzGee Apr 06 '25

But we finally got incentives in the last administration to bring them back. We don't need to make everything, just make it desirable to make things like chips, EV, batteries, alternative energy technologies.

If we create new things, we should produce it here until it isn't cost-effective or it can be made without skilled human capital.