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Overseas manufacturing is based on arbitrage of lack of caring about human rights and ecological regulation, and a lack of a proper carbon tax on the transport.
by AtlasBarfed 6y ago
Overseas manufacturing is based on arbitrage of lack of caring about human rights and ecological regulation, and a lack of a proper carbon tax on the transport.
Tariffs are a universal evil of economics, but if on-the-ground economic policy won't account for human rights and long term ecological preservation and the survival of the species, then I'll take a crude equivalence and a boost to domestic manufacturing.
They just need to be instituted gradually.
But worry not libertarians of HackerNews, that'll NEVER happen. Missing quarterly stock price targets so your options cash will always take precedence over the survival of the species.
- sjcoles 6y ago> Overseas manufacturing is based on arbitrage of lack of caring about human rights and ecological regulation, and a lack of a proper carbon tax on the transport. Yup. Many US made products are US assembled. The constituent components are still produced with slave labor and reckless abandon for the environment. There are some regulations around made in the usa vs assembled in the usa but they are minimal.