全球化是为了维持经济不平等
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Vance slams globalization for hampering American
innovation
by Miranda Nazzaro
Vice President Vance defended the Trump administration’s push for
technology innovation despite any risks in a Tuesday speech to
entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, arguing globalization has
stifled this mission over the past several decades.
“Our workers, the populists on the one hand, the tech optimists on
the other, have been failed by this government. Not just the
government of the last administration, but the government — in some
ways — of the last 40 years, because there were two conceits that
our leadership class had when it came to globalization,” Vance said
during his keynote address to the American Dynamism Summit.
Vance argued the first conceit of globalization — describing the
interdependence of the world’s economies and services — was the
assumption the U.S. would be able to separate the manufacturing of
products from their design process.
“The idea o
f globalization was that rich countries would move further up the
value chain while the poor countries made the simpler things,” he
said, adding later, “But I think we got it wrong. It turns out that
the geographies that do the manufacturing get awfully good at the
designing of things.”
The vice president described how design firms work with their
manufacturing partners and often share intellectual property,
practices and sometimes employees as a result.
“Now, we assume that other nations would always trail us in the
value chain. But it turns out that as they got better at the low
end of the value chain, they also started catching up on the higher
end. We were squeezed from both ends,” he said.
The second conceit, Vance argued, was the idea that cheap labor is
a positive thing for innovation.
“Cheap labor is fundamentally a crutch, and it’s a crutch that
inhibits innovation,” the vice president said. “I might even say
that it’s a drug that too many American firms got addicted to
now.”
Vance, a former venture capitalist, has served as one of the Trump
administration’s main messengers of technology policy.
Tuesday’s address built off his speech at the Artificial
Intelligence Action Summit in Paris last month. Vance on Tuesday
echoed his push against excessive regulation, arguing tech
companies must be able to “build, build, build.”
“Our goal is to incentivize investment in our own borders, in our
own businesses, our own workers and our own innovation,” Vance
said. “We don’t want people seeking cheap labor. We want them
investing and building right here in the United States of
America.”
The vice president also took aim at deindustrialization, stating it
poses a risk to both America’s national security and
workforce.
“It’s important because it affects both, and the net result is
dispossession — for many in this country — of any part of the
productive process,” he continued. “And when our factories
disappear and the jobs in those factories go overseas, American
workers are faced not only with financial insecurity, they’re also
faced with a profound loss of personal and communal
identity.”
The Trump administration has made clear it wants to bring jobs and
production back to the U.S., especially as foreign competition in
the technology space ramps up.
Shortly after being sworn into his second term, President Trump
repealed former President Biden’s 2023 executive order that placed
guardrails on artificial intelligence (AI) innovation and signed an
executive order to roll back any policies that “act as barriers to
American AI innovation.”
Vance acknowledged the persistent concerns over AI technology
taking the jobs of Americans but argued the technology might not
have as much of an impact as people assume.
He used the example of the ATM, which at the time was feared to
replace bank tellers.
“In reality, the advent of the ATM made bank tellers more
productive, and you have more people today working in customer
service in the financial sector than you had when the ATM was
created,” he said. “Now they’re doing slightly different
jobs.”
“We shouldn’t be afraid of artificial intelligence and that,
particularly for those of us lucky enough to be Americans, we
shouldn’t be fearful of productive new technologies,” Vance added.
“In fact, we should seek to dominate them, and that’s certainly
what this administration wants to accomplish.”
