Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

Re:Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35%... by NoMoreNicksLeft on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @01:59PM (#43848704)

You're expecting that in the coming months the demand for master plumbers will double or something? Or are you saying that the existing demand is already so high that it can do more than provide some fraction of one percent of the jobs that our nation of 300-million-ish needs to have a strong economy?

I think we both agree that one of us has unrealistic impressions of the big picture here. When we regularly here of layoffs that affect hundreds and thousands of jobs, welders and electricians can't absorb those unemployed to any great degree. Nor all of the trades put together.

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Re:Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35%... by anigbrowl on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @04:58PM (#43850588)

But why do you expect manufacturing to do that? It's just not as labor intensive as it used to be, and if there's a recession demand for manufactured goods falls, resulting in layoffs.

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