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The complete lack of charity in these neoliberal critiques always crack me up. Haha, those poor blue collar plebs don't know what's even in their best interest!

• caspper69 2y ago
  Why would I ask an llm anything? The asian economic miracle as you put it took place in countries with cheap land, essentially free labor (by Western standards), zero environmental protections, and cheap global shipping. News flash Einstein, they weren’t buying our expensive shit to begin with. So they didn’t really need tariffs. Why? Because they lived in huts with no electricity or running water and ate rice and vegetables for every meal. Neoliberal takes. I’ve been reading the Wall Street Journal daily since before you were born, back when it wasn’t just another mouthpiece for some rich asshole with an axe to grind.
  • p3rls 2y ago
    You're a retard.
• voidhorse 2y ago
  Even if I assume that is true, Asia in the 60s-90s and the USA in 2025 are very different geopolitical entities with very different trade relations to navigate and resources that they have/do not have available. This is the whole reason an analysis is necessary. Making good political choices is about taking relevant information and making trade offs, these levers are not some context-independent magic wand that we should hope will work because "hey it worked for the other guy". You'll also note that good trade relations with the US, not pissing off your trading partners, were a key element to that success. I'm sure deepseek will also let you know that tariffs are by and large considered a terrible strategy in the vast majority of circumstances.
• HDThoreaun 2y ago
  The asian economic uplift was powered by exports, not by reducing imports. Tariffs were the exact opposite of what they wanted as they were reliant on exporting their cheap labor and a trade war makes that much harder. Latin american countries made the mistake of trying to build an economy by reducing imports through tariffs, as we can see it did not work.