U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids

A caste system at the very least

You think you'll be allowed to leave?

...Which is not the worst thing in the world if they're treated and compensated fairly.
But they won't be, of course.

Serfs get the benefit of living in a hovel on their lord's manor so long as they continue to work to expand their lord's fortune.

Or if they're not willing to do that, they get the benefit of a burial.

Best we can do is 1099 with pre-ACA "swiss cheese" cover healthcare including pre-existing conditions. As for retirement savings, we'll place 1% of your salary into our the trump memecoin, but it doesn't actually vest until you turn 65 so you can't sell it before hand. How does that sound?

what benefits? the streets had to be painted red with communist and syndicalist blood for us to have it.

Lol

the people who suggest this always excuse themselves out of doing it.

Are you suggesting that you're not good at being a slave but you can be a slave master?

But not his kids or any of the administration's kids.

These companies are making a bank out of planned obsolescence, and they can do so because their workers are cheap.

In a throwaway culture, you do not want to be a generic factory worker, because your time and efforts will be worth almost nothing.

It doesn't have to be this way, but cheap labor from places like China has enabled this culture. If you don't want to be a slave, you have to change that culture.

Edit: As others have said, certain classes of people will be exempt from having to work in factories in his mind. It's not this bastard's children or grandchildren he is referring to of course.