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But what at the polls when Americans can no longer buy lots of cheap crap online and have to go to work in a factory... All great in principle, but we humans a
by jalapenos 2y ago
But what at the polls when Americans can no longer buy lots of cheap crap online and have to go to work in a factory...
All great in principle, but we humans aren't actually principled beyond fanciful proclamations that we are, and are in fact a mere step or two above a dog growling when you touch its bowl.
- alabastervlog 2y agoIt’s worse than that: most of those hypothetical factory jobs will go to people “higher” on the economic chain who lost their jobs and are shifting “down”, not to “lower” workers shifting “up”. Reduced retail volume will indeed put Wal mart workers and such out of work, but they simply won’t have other jobs. Maybe meat packing and fruit picking, if Trump gets around to deporting those workers instead of college students.
- klooney 2y agoNobody is going to dump millions of dollars into a factory when the tariffs could be revoked at any minute, and definitely will after the next Democratic administration. Plus, the coordination problem is bigger than any one widget factory- China has diligently moved the entire world's industrial supply chain onshore. There's nowhere else to get your feedstock.
- jalapenos 2y agoSeems like the bit at the start of your paragraph is the cause of the bit at the end of it. Perhaps the only solution is Democrats never get back into power lol