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you are not paying for the full end-to-end cost of the item Dirty little secret: this is deliberate. Why do you think the West closed all its heavily regulated
by gaius 8y ago
you are not paying for the full end-to-end cost of the item
Dirty little secret: this is deliberate. Why do you think the West closed all its heavily regulated factories and shifted manufacturing to China where environmental protection and workers rights don’t exist?
We should impose tariffs to punish imports from anywhere that isn’t up to Western standards of regulation. That’s the only way for the market to fix this.
- twoodfin 8y ago“Imports” are just things, they can’t be punished. The punishment would be for poor workers in China who would see their living standards rise more slowly, and poor citizens in the West, for whom the tariffs would be a highly regressive tax on many of their purchases.
- gaius 8y agopoor workers in China who would see their living standards rise more slowly So we destroy the planet so the CCP can cling to power for a few more years? Because that’s what that is. And no one in the West will really suffer if their consumer tat costs more. Maybe we don’t need a new phone every year or maybe we could buy locally made clothes that last a few years?