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That's what I was thinking. If China wants to subsidize American manufacturing by selling us cheap aluminum, what's the problem? This is is bad if you're part o
by CountSessine 10y ago
That's what I was thinking. If China wants to subsidize American manufacturing by selling us cheap aluminum, what's the problem? This is is bad if you're part of the tiny American aluminum mining and extraction business, but it's probably pretty fantastic if you're part of the huge and important industries making anything with aluminum, like cars and airplanes.
Why do we want to protect primary industries when historically there's been so much more money in secondary industries?
- ittekimasu 10y agoDo you know the story of how the British went from petty traders to "greatness"?
- lostlogin 10y agoAnd then back again. That's empires for you.
- CPLX 10y agoOf course, one could argue that those of us in the US are in fact the British Empire, the narrative slightly complicated by that civil war period of 1776-1812 of course.
- ittekimasu 10y agoTrue, this seems to be how Foreign policy people view things. This viewpoint shows up in things like "Five eyes" etc.