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I wish our governments in Europe just ate the tariffs. It's time to diversify our ridiculous export-based economies and invest into creating a strong internal
by epolanski 1y ago
I wish our governments in Europe just ate the tariffs.
It's time to diversify our ridiculous export-based economies and invest into creating a strong internal market.
- SanjayMehta 1y agoAs a non-European, I associate your exports with fine and luxury goods, from French wine to Swiss watches to German cars. I don’t see staples coming out of Europe. So I’m wondering what a strong internal market would be?
- wkat4242 1y agoWe do make staples. The ones I have here are made in Europe. We don't buy such things from the US (though from China, maybe). I think a lot of it is just not very visible because it's mainly for internal market use. In fact I'm not buying much of anything from the US anymore. If anything to screw up Trump's "trade deficit" even more despite his tariffs.
- skylurk 1y agoThese? ;) https://www.stapleheadquarters.com/Fasco_Staples https://www.stapleheadquarters.com/Fasco_Staples But yeah, in the US seems like every consumer good is made in China. In the EU there's still a ton of shit made locally. Appliances from Poland, clothes from Portugal, etc. Brands that Americans would not recognise.
- SanjayMehta 1y agoI guess I wasn’t clear: I meant staple goods not staples as in paper fastening clips.
- wkat4242 1y agoYeah me too. We have to stand up to the bully or it's only getting worse. It's bad enough that von der leyen basically gave away a free trillion for "not getting the worst tariffs imposed on us".
- Herring 1y agoI used to play a lot of Coup in college. In that game, I can bluff about having a card that lets me steal 2 coins from you. Our group quickly learned that if you let someone get away with that bluff once, not only would they steal from you every turn, everyone else would also start stealing from you too, because they assume you wouldn't challenge them.