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Which is stronger, our distaste for totalitarianism or our complete addiction to China’s market? It’s a dichotomy that leaves me confounded and unsurprised.
by antiterra 5y ago
Which is stronger, our distaste for totalitarianism or our complete addiction to China’s market?
It’s a dichotomy that leaves me confounded and unsurprised.
- throw10920 5y agoThere's no "our" here. America is not a hivemind - it's a collection of individual citizens with very different perspectives. Personally, I would be alright with the price of my electronics doubling in exchange for us cutting off all trade with China, but I suspect that many of my representatives might not feel the same way...
- antiterra 5y agoWe may not be a hive-mind, but we have a collective effect. I also would suggest (non-scientifically) that many of the people buying incredibly inexpensive clothes originally sourced from the Guangzhou fashion market are also deeply concerned about forced labor or films with screenplays altered to align with a totalitarian government’s wishes.