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I guess we'll have to extract these here and manufacture again vs letting NIMBY regulations and cheap labor goons push everything overseas.

• vkou 5y ago
  So, you're suggesting that we should eat higher costs for everything, lower wages, harder and more dangerous work, and maybe throw in Beijing air quality as a bonus. Which of all of these new, unregulated extraction and manufacturing jobs will you be signing up to do? Will you be doing your fifty hours in the unregulated zinc mine, or your sixty-five in the Nike jeans sweatshop? Productivity isn't like money, you can't just turn on a printing press and make more of it.
  • gedy 5y ago
    I’m old enough to remember life before PRC manufacturing, and it was just fine. I’m not that old either. Besides, cost of living isn’t that cheap in the west anyways.
    • vkou 5y ago
      > I’m old enough to remember life before PRC manufacturing, and it was just fine. Yes, it was just done in shining beacons of freedom like Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, with the resources to fuel it coming in large part from despotic regimes in Africa, or juntas in South America, or petro-sheikdoms. > Besides, cost of living isn’t that cheap in the west anyways. It can always go up further. In the meantime, before we take drastic, widely unpopular measures, perhaps we could take baby steps, like not actively working towards creating more dictatorships..? We can do a lot on this front, by doing very little.