Ridiculous to have laws that unfairly protect dead industries. Dockworkers next please so we can have automated container unloading.
Good for the bottom line, bad for the worker.
Bad for most workers. Good for a cabal. The Jones Act directly lead to the failure of American shipbuilding.
Jones Act didn't kill American Shipbuilding, cost of American worker did.
However, whole reason for Jones Act is attempt to protect the American Merchant Marine. If you can't move things via water in wartime, you don't have an empire.
Now US shipbuilding has been shielded from competition for so long, that any kind of permanent repeal of Jones act will mean instant bankruptcy of US ship builders. Similar to what happened in Eastern Europe after 1989. That shock of not being shielded by iron curtain from competition has caused implosion of whole industries.
Kim_Bruning•1h ago