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> short-sighted neoliberal trade deals and hostility to organized labor, which accelerated the process of hollowing out the country What if they weren't short-
by aprilthird2021 1mo ago
> short-sighted neoliberal trade deals and hostility to organized labor, which accelerated the process of hollowing out the country
What if they weren't short-sighted and not hostile? Look at Germany, which did not do this and instead kept strong provisions in favor of organized labor and protecting their domestic industry from foreign entrants.
They can't keep doing it anymore. That would have been our future. But we pivoted to high skilled services and it has served us immensely better than if we had tried to defeat other powers in industrial and manufacturing where they had a clear advantage we didn't, in terms of cost.
- iamnothere 1mo agoThis ignores that Germany is not energy independent (unlike the US), and that it suddenly lost its main energy supply and followed this up by closing its remaining nuclear facilities, a massive self-own. This also ignores that the US is now having serious trouble supplying its own military and tech sector due to the same deindustrialization! It also basically created its most formidable geopolitical competitor through this process.
- aprilthird2021 1mo agoNo one is everything independent. And all are capable of losing their main supply of various important commodities. Sure the US is having trouble with that. But the easy fix to that was to not start unnecessary wars