How is ur family reacting to Trump atm
How is ur family reacting to Trump atm
This is good, humans can retire at later ages now since healthcare and qol is better. We should work till we are 70. This will help us beat china.
I don't talk politics with people in real life.
I agree, work until you die I say. Bootstraps and all, right boomers?
Won't somebody think of the boomers and CEOs!?
Boomers have enjoyed many benefits and now its time to give back to the nation. We should raise the pension age for them to 85. Show these xoomers yoomers and zoomers how its done
I don't understand the stock market. Making things locally is a good thing isn't it? People should be happy and investing more on the news of tariffs for that reason.
You can't make everything in America.
Just like you can't make everything in China.
Surely its fine if these big companies lose the money to even consider opening local production. Wait, will producing locally even be cheaper? How much do they pay in bangladesh?
Local things will cost more due to US anti-slavery/sweatshop laws. This is what MAGAtards dont understand, the only reason these companies even moved production overseas is to take advantage of slavery so they don't have to pay workers and can therefore make their products cheaper.
You bring them back and the price shoots right up as US workers need wages and safe working conditions.
Noooo... you mean that the workers have to work in places with IMPROVED SAFETY???? SAVE ME NIGGERMAN!!!!!!!
the issue is that its far cheaper to make things overseas due to lower labor costs, far less regulations both for worker safety and environmental. That shirt you buy for 15$ made in Indonesia might cost 25+$ if it were made here. Electronics will be the hardest hit, and might move some items out of the price range of the average consumer.
Holy shit Americans are fucking retarded. How the fuck is this the nation that went to the moon
We care about sweatshops now
Funniest cope to come out of this
The point is that it's expensive. Hiring an American adult requires far more money and resources than buying some child slaves from a third world country and shoving them in a sweatshop. I'm not saying it's a good thing that this is the way things work, it's just a fact. Prices will skyrocket if jobs are brought back to America.
German scientists
Americans want their cake and to eat it to. They want cheap goods but also high wages. Something has to give and when they don't get it they vote the other party. The mid-terms are going to be a complete and utter bloodbath for the GOP and the dems might even get enough votes to impeach Trump and actually make it stick this time.
MAGA is coping so hard they became fair trade leftists. The Republican Party is gonna come out of this more left-wing than the Democrats.
America should bring back chattel slavery to lower costs, but since black people already did their time, this time whites are slaves and blacks do the whipping. Then we call it even, deal?
Burn it all down. If you thought number was going to go up forever you're naive.
Its not as if those sweatshops will suddenly stop. Women are some of the greatest consumers and the american countryside will not be able to grow that much cotton (heh)
For clothes I meant
but they'll pay more for everything, because stores will also mark up the prices likely even more than the tariff amounts because people were expecting it, same with the inflation situation during covid. Even with credit something has to give and some people won't be able to afford what they used to. Add that to stocks crashing and people will be losing their jobs as well.
Nah, enslave the indians with the promise of sexbots.
Aww, is reorganizing the global order hard? :'(
Local production do be good ofc, but this flashstrike was just tarded. I can see some industries not returning anyway since it will remain cheaper to keep production in thirdworldlandia, potentially just letting the american consumer pay the difference.
"Hey its more expensive now but what do you want, its tariffs"
giga rich
middle class
why do r-dditors larp as stock owners
Yeah it's weird seeing Trump supporters suddenly give a shit about fair trade and third-world slavery because they saw a Fox News segment or whatever bringing it up to defend the tariffs, but it's 10x weirder to see leftists suddenly defending those things in order to own Trump supporters when they bring them up. If Trump unintentionally fucks over sweatshops and the corporations using slave labor then that's objectively a good thing. We don't have to defend those heinous practices in order to attack him.
My parents and siblings are all crying and oissing and shitting and farting over every single move he makes. My wife thinks he's pretty cool. My kids don't really care. I think he's alright.
If trump fucks over sweatshops
He wont, it will remain cheaper to produce tshirts with a poop emoji in chingchongladeshstan. Its not as if those big international corpos only export to the us either.
Also, not defending those practices myself or a lefthomo but lefties have been defending sweatshops for a while now. They say its better for those kids to work than to be married off at 7.
I'm just saying that most want good paying manufacturing jobs back in America but the vast majority aren't willing to actually suffer hardship and higher prices to make it happen.
They've been in terminal phase TDS since 2016 so no change
Well they don't have a choice now. It's about time a western world leader had the balls to do something real
Real but not effective
like I said they can do something, vote blue in the mid-terms. At the very least Trump will be hamstrung and might even be impeached or forced to do a Nixon and resign.
Effective at what? I for one want the gay global world order to crash. The whole system is so stagnant that nothing useful happens, and dishonest politicians take advantage of the stability to grift off the top and secure their bag. Burn it all down.
America makes cars. Japan also makes cars. American cars are giant pieces of shit. Japan cars are cheaper, more reliable, safer, last longer etc. Making it so that you can only get american cars and not japanese cars only makes things worse for consumers. Once that hapens, american cars will get worse, not better, because they don't have any more competition. Don't be a brainlet
A fellow accelerationist, I didn't realize.
You're probably right but it's still so bizarre to see people claiming to be leftists respond to the hypothetical scenario of Trump's tariffs managing to achieve this by painting it as a bad thing. Like why the absolute fuck am I seeing viral tweets from leftists talking about how iPhone prices would shoot up if Apple was forced to stop exploiting third-world workers as if that means it shouldn't happen and it's a good thing that they do that shit?
Boomers already got out. It's Gen X copping the cock, but they're close enough and had almost as much a free ride to our ages at least.
Its because they are hyperconsumers. Its similar to when you tell a drug user that their habits are responsible for deaths and general violence.
Or when you call to be more mindful in how much we consume and be met with cries of "oh but it happens anyway and we cant change that"
lots of foreign automakers have plants here in the US though and US automakers have plants in other countries.
I naively hoped Trump was going to be the accelerationist candidate in 2016. I was pleasantly surprised by the big balls tariffs play. Hopefully he sees it through
I don't think the economy would function the same if people aren't hyperconsumers anymore.
good paying manufacturing jobs back i
if manufacturing does come back, it'll be in the form of fully or mostly automated factory production with little to no need for tons of employees
Trump's tariffs could make corporations exploiting child slavery lose money and be forced to abandon the sweatshops and create jobs in America where they have to pay livable wages and maintain safe working conditions!
Leftists for some reason: youtube.com
Slavefarms will be less profitable now because uhh tariffs
Dontworry libtarfs, you will just pay more for your nikkes.
forced to abandon the sweatshops and create jobs in America
why would that happen? why do Americans think the US is the only market in the world? sweatshops producing cheap shit will still exist, all that's gonna happen is higher prices in the US for that cheap shit
no, that is an economically liberal take and the "sweatshops are actually good for 3rd world poors" sentiment has bipartisan support. it does bring up a cogent point, people forced to work in sweatshops don't really have any other opportunity to make ends meet. so its either that or starve to death.
you're a fool to think those crops are ever going to stop their profitable slavery in those countries. Anything here would be automated or musk and his people will roll back labor right so much Americans are working in sweatshops here.
Yes but the thing im talking about was I think a UN type thing where they specifically made it about child marriage or female prostitution. It was presented as a feminist issue.
kek, they're now getting the advice they gave to millennials and zoomers, and they don't like it.