knownjorbist

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by knownjorbist 5y ago
The ancestors of the people you're describing moved & learned new skills in that scenario. If markets are moving away from that particular niche, the government should not be artificially preserving the conditions under which gener
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by knownjorbist 5y ago
With select exceptions(defense, mainly), disruptions of the kind you're describing are best handled with multilateralism.
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The overall economic cost of trying to maintain generation after generation doing the same thing with the same results far outweighs the people experiencing some pain of having to re-train, go to school or move elsewhere. If anything that&#
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Manufacturing is not some magical thing we should be exclusively trying to court.
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by knownjorbist 5y ago
This is both ignorant of reality & basic economic principles. The US is still the second largest manufacturer in the world(unless you consider the EU as a single entity in that regard), and comparative advantage is a very real(and good)
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by knownjorbist 5y ago
There are actual conspiracies involving small groups of people cooperating for a relatively small personal or organizational benefit in the grand scheme of things - for example see /r/actualconspiracies. Then there are vast, globe
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by knownjorbist 5y ago
> It was an excuse for a embarrassing loss. This is the conspiracy theory in and of itself, not the other way around. Russia interfering in the election was already being investigated & reported on BEFORE election day.