Services, in my mind, is a broader thing than just market exports (which I agree are largely tech). Consider the pejorative term "nanny state." The government b

Services, in my mind, is a broader thing than just market exports (which I agree are largely tech). Consider the pejorative term "nanny state." The government bureaucrat testing your water for lead is part of this system. Bessent is very explicitly saying that the administration is deliberately shredding jobs in the federal bureaucracy and expects those people to go work in the factories they hope will be created based on these policies. While there's definitely an "ugh, not everything has to be about gender studies" reaction to some of these ideas I personally can't stop seeing it over and over and over in the new administration and social reaction to it. Zuckerburg saying that we need more "masculine energy" in tech and rebranding his image. Mel Gibson saying that Trump is "daddy" returning home and taking off his belt to beat us back into shape. Vance and Musk's obsessions with childless women.