4 ms·

I've often thought we should introduce tariffs based on wages paid in the source country. The goal would be to prevent goods from being artificially cheap due

• basch 6y ago
  The same should apply to externalities like pollution. It shouldn't be cheaper to pollute somewhere else.
• Arnt 6y ago
  And then some big low-wage country answers with tariffs based on, say, the number of people employed and paid above the poverty line, and argues that it's bad to produce goods using just a few obscenely well paid people and a lot of robots, and that this badness should be counteracted using tariffs.
  • tarboreus 6y ago
    The US is the country with the big consumer market, though. Who cares if small country X has high tariffs?
    • Arnt 6y ago
      Well... I expect farmers do, and Harley Davidson employees, and Boeing employees, and, well, really anyone with a job that involves selling goods or services abroad.