Helpful and accurate.
Everyone who constantly repeats the tariff and “bring back the jobs” mantras need to start a small business somewhere making something ubiquitous that is now imported.
With so many people unemployed, many of them engineers and financial services people, it stands to reason that _some_ of them would have, by now, taken their expertise and started a domestic business. Likely, many have tried. Perhaps a few have succeeded, only to discover the huge target they now have on their backs.
About all you can do these days is buy yourself a job, either making something or providing some service that can’t be exported. But you need to have no employees, use nothing that could be classified as a chemical, be located remotely and use as little water and energy as possible in the process.
With so many people unemployed, many of them engineers and financial services people, it stands to reason that _some_ of them would have, by now, taken their expertise and started a domestic business. Likely, many have tried. Perhaps a few have succeeded, only to discover the huge target they now have on their backs.
About all you can do these days is buy yourself a job, either making something or providing some service that can’t be exported. But you need to have no employees, use nothing that could be classified as a chemical, be located remotely and use as little water and energy as possible in the process.
Bullseye.
That closely parallels my own path & experience, the last 25 years, including your last paragraph.