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the low skill manufacturing jobs they took were going to leave the US anyway.

... Yes and no. A lot of junk, sure. But there was no necessity to move much of large scale manufacturing over---the primary reason it happened was rampant consumerism desiring the cheapness that lower standards brought, without regard to workers or the ability of the national economy to have a modern strength against foreign influence.

Production is fully capable to have been kept in the usa for a lot of products, as long as people were willing to buy less. It'd have been a greater benefit to our economy and the environment overall.

But tariffs aren't the answer here - instead, the answer is to support local industries by giving them government contracts to produce their goods, which the government can then use and/or stockpile when we aren't in a time of crisis.

Tariffs are an important tool. They should never be the only tool used from the tool box. But nonetheless, they're important to disincentive the moving away manufacturing based just on wages. They make products more expensive, allowing local products to survive more easily ---but if you rely on them too heavily, your local industries become stagnant.

Most goods are not reasonable to spend government money on as well. That works great for medical goods and food, but not much else.

That's just the forward march of technological progress.

When companies like Amazon use that logic to cut wages to half of competition.... I got a problem.

Hear! Hear!

America gave china the manufacturing jobs by failing to block slave labor imports and failing to put proper tariffs to account for differences in cost of living to a reasonable extent. I say this at risk of sounding like a trumpy...

This is to be clear that while I advocate for some level of global inter investment, having capacity in your home country is ever very important. Usa could've kept the jobs if they were smart back then.

The vast majority of parachutes are not

The root cause is a lack of multi family housing. Corpos buying houses is not the primary issue with housing, though it is also a serious concern.

That's a wild take. Just hug nazis am I right guys?

(This isn't meant to suggest lemmy devs are nazis)

Community colleges function differently

Yeah my grandma's house

Why I broke up ngl

I wash myself prior to the bath not during it

Rain on a metal roof. Heavy is best. Drowns out the world

It's unlawful. The president is not following the law

#1 reason I'll never visit china, as much as there seems to be amazing things to see there

That issue came about because of poor procedure and poor enforcement. Instead of being "you are fired immediately if camera is screwed with" it was "yeah you're chillin"

You didn't say anything offensive or ridiculously stupid, no.

Most I'd have is a mild disagreement with the statement that it's impossible to have local places--I feel like only minor adjustments would be needed for many goods in relation to that.

It's a funny scenario to think about, but the skill would be so in demand someone with it could not touch a farming tool the rest of their life and still eat good

No silly, not after they input race.

I just think they're neat

Same for me. As long as people are still shipping things my job will be safe. My hours slimmed, sure, but I've got enough seniority to ride out lay offs

A lot of cost of living cost (rent/housing costs) are basically artificially created out of a combination of corporate and NIMBY s.

Higher cost items isn't necessarily a bad thing. If prices goes up but they last 5 decades it's fine