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Not if that country also legislates heavy penalties for companies that produce their goods in countries with worse labor laws.
by danaris 5mo ago
Not if that country also legislates heavy penalties for companies that produce their goods in countries with worse labor laws.
- nickff 5mo agoThe economic motive for offshoring would remain (though slightly mitigated), unless that country’s demand (in each regulated sector) was much more than rest of the world’s. I personally doubt that most places are even willing to implement such legislation, given that they’re not even willing to protest PRoC’s use of slave labor and prison camps.
- anomaly_ 5mo agoYou're just going to Galapagos your economy. Consumers won't put up with high prices and inferior goods. Unless you want to restrict internet/information access so your consumers don't know what they are missing out on.
- amanaplanacanal 5mo agoI dunno. Consumers put up with a lot. Why can't I buy a cheap Chinese EV again?
- Avicebron 5mo agoWell the short version is that Robert Rubin and company sold our industries for parts years and years ago. And now we have to rebuild the industrial base from scratch
- jfengel 5mo agoThat should make it possible to buy a cheap Chinese EV. You can't because they didn't sell out completely. In fact they still have some power to protect the companies from foreign products. The result is a mishmash of protectionism and globalization.
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- youngNed 5mo agoNah, I live in the UK, prices are higher than eu, public service is much worse, but public are voting for the party with members that brought this about. Humans are weird.
- jfengel 5mo agoVoting for someone else would mean admitting you were wrong. Paying high prices and losing your job are bad, but not as bad as changing your mind.
- xg15 5mo agoAlmost like we needed some international worker's organization to put pressure on all relevant countries at the same time...
- AndrewKemendo 5mo agoHey don’t go talking crazy about some kind of global labor solidarity and collective bargaining