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   Juggling With Eggs (jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 01:14:04 JST Juggling With Eggs

   ‘the selection of dolls, in particular, as #Trump’s stand-in for consumer prices reflects the gendered ideas about work, money and purchasing that animate Trump’s chaotic economic policy.

   After all, Trump did not talk about the impact of his trade regime on toy trucks or GI Joe action figures – and he certainly didn’t mention its likely impact on things like video games’

   #Tariffs
   #Gender
   #USEconomy

   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/trump-dolls-little-girls

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     Juggling With Eggs (jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 05:40:18 JST Juggling With Eggs

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     The future that #Trump’s Cabinet anticipates for most Americans is grim…

     “It’s time to train people not to do the jobs of the past but to do the great jobs of the future,” #Lutnick said, arguing that fewer people should be aspiring to bachelor’s degrees and should expect to occupy themselves in lower-skill factory work instead.

     “This is the new model, where you work in these kind of plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here.”