Just like he was counting on China you need us more than we need them.
I really hate people who are constitutionally unable to negotiate in good faith.
SaltSong
joined 6 months ago
Not helping.
Looked to me like an attempt to pull off an in-line bulleted list.
Shot in officer involved shooting?
Shot by a police officer.
Yea, this guy tap-dances well, but if he wasn't lying to Congress right there, ill eat my hat.
As I understand it, these sweatshop jobs do resist the standard of living in the areas they are in. The people there don't have the option to work a job that we would consider good. They work the job we consider terrible, and they get paid more than they would doing other jobs.
To make a moral judgement, we must balance between "terrible working conditions, no protections, maximum wealth extraction," on the one hand, and "no infrastructure, no job, no money" on the other. Sadly, there is no profit in making the world better for everyone.
Are you using the US or China as your "here?" Because I don't think it's quite that bad in the US, but I don't think anyone blames the voters in China.
Narrator: he did not, in fact, know what the hell he was doing.
I mean, I'm not 100% opposed to some of the things he claims he's trying to accomplish. But I'm not what you'd call an expert on the topic, and I might have some bad ideas about how the economy works. But even if I'm not barking up the wrong tree, the things he's doing are not how you accomplish the things he says he wants to accomplish.
Why do we keep electing stupid old men to office?
Right. They are just gonna let anyone sell anything.
My wife is artsy, and I'm sciency. Maybe we can go into snake oil.
Most of us are not getting richer, nor working shorter hours, nor living better than our parents. We're past "services" and on into "parasites."
In principal, tariffs can prop up domestic industry that is having trouble competing with cheaper imported products. In practice, this winds up being really complicated, because the world is a lot more interdependent than it was 80 years ago.