When did we start using the wording "increase spend"?
Probably around the same people started saying "I have an ask" and "that's a nice solve"
The scourge of nouning.
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a huge amount of American graduated aren't able to find work after graduation with a significant number of jobs going to foreigners. that seems problematic to me we should be putting Americans first not importing people to do the job they spent years training for.
There's an odd idea that increasing the number of educated people in the country makes it harder to find jobs. Where is it easiest to find software jobs? Probably san francisco. You'd think it'd be easiest in some small town in idaho where you'd be the only software developer, right? You'd have no competition! But instead it's the easiest where all the other software developers are. The causation is two-way. Software…
Big part of problem is that many companies hire foreigners not because it is "easier", it is not, but because they pay them little while holding in visa slavery.
On top of that, the way they hire foreigners and provide permanent residence path to them is straight fraud: they put job ads into some local newspaper no one reads to prove there is no local competition for the opening.
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That number that you don’t think is real lets you claim actual resources now and in the future. I think you should equally be confused about abstractions such as university credentials, or citizenship.
What lets you claim actual resources is the number, plus the massive economic system that it lives within. The economic system is by far the more interesting and relevant part of that, as evidenced by the fact that most assets are not held in the form of money. And yes, those others are great examples of this principle. The diploma is just a piece of paper and an entry in the university's records. Set it on fire and…
I agree. And so when we make up or transfer numbers in a database it has real world impact.
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Easy to imagine - phones would be 1.5x more expensive than they are now, from get go. The cheap electronics (and goods in large part) have been hallmark of "quality of life in USA" for decades; I still get iPhone and Lenovo laptops 40% cheaper than family members living in Europe. However, it seems that Americans are so tired of growing prices that they are getting used to paying them. Just yesterday there was an art…
> I still get iPhone and Lenovo laptops 40% cheaper than family members living in Europe. Isn't this mostly explained by much higher sales tax (VAT) in most European countries? That doesn't seem to have anything to do with off-shoring the manuf'ing of these elctronic devices. That higher tax revenue can be used to fund excellent national healthcare (insurance) programmes, something that the US badly lacks.
Not just VAT.
For example, the EU mandates extended warranty protections that would be an optional purchase in other markets.
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The biggest problem with the tariff policy is not the cost or even the uncertainty, it's the corruption. A single person should not have the power to dictate the terms of trade, because the rational play in such a system is for businesses that rely on trade to pander to that person, and that's corrupt.
It is useful for the president to have emergency powers. However he should have been impeached for abusing emergency powers in a non-emergency. Same for his invasion of Iran - Iran has been building long enough that he had plenty of time to go to Congress for permission if he thought attacks were needed.
Impeachment and removal as the primary remedy for executive overreach is - and always was - wishful thinking. We need a fundamentally less powerful executive.
This is most obvious with the pardon power. In the debate about its inclusion, the argument was "well if a president uses that power corruptly, they will be impeached". But no, that was wishful thinking. The same is true of "emergency" tariff powers and a bunch of other things.
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I treat my technical memories in discussions like the Russian proverb Reagan popularized in the disarmament negotiations with the Soviets. доверяй, но проверяй “Trust, but verify.” Meta: Yes, I did a quick search to verify some of this before replying.
Very good. Sometimes I‘m too impatient.
I can relate.
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#227As much as I hate the source of the tariff policies, from an uneducated outsider PoV, they do seem to be causing fewer dollars to leave the country in imports. How does it feel from an insider perspective? Are the increased costs on imported items and dependent services worth it for a bit more local investment?
> they do seem to be causing fewer dollars to leave the country in imports.
Hmmm.
2026-07-07 "Canada's trade surplus in May jumps to a four-year high as US exports surge": https://www.tradingview.com/news/reuters.com,2026:newsml_L4N...
2026-07-06 "US trade deficit surges amid artificial intelligence spending boom": https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/7/7/us-trade-deficit-...
If Trump's tariffs were supposed to lower the trade deficit, they haven't started working yet.
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China is not a good trading partner at all. They put up barriers for companies entering their market, mandatory China employee in your company, IP theft, they subsidize and flood the market killing competition, most everything they make is lowest quality possible, lots of fraud even within China.
This just reads as sour grapes when countries don't want to deal with bad trades from Western corporations that mostly focus on extracting local populaces while inflicting as much damage to possible toward local labor groups. Can't really be shocked when nation states enact laws to protect industries + workers.
sour grapes, sure! Are you going to argue any of the items I've listed? "Western corporations that mostly focus on extracting local populaces while inflicting as much damage to possible toward local labor groups." Western corporations didn't inflict anything. They ask for something to be built, pay, and receive goods. Chinese companies agree on payment, hire people, do the work, and deliver. win-win. Where's the inflicting part? Oh wait, Chinese companies choose to burn coal, dump chemicals, harsh labor, etc but you blame Western corporations. So Western corporations wrote in the contract you must burn coal, you must pay works $1 per day, no bathroom breaks? In fact, I doubt Western corporations deal with local labor groups at all.
You know why China has money now? Because of Western corporations. But fine, you don't want Western corporations, kick them all out. Right now!
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Nuking international students and then making it so they can't stay after getting degrees here is one huge issue: https://www.piie.com/publications/policy-briefs/2026/class-d...
but wouldn't that give more opportunities for local students? The disadvantage is, they come, learn, leave, and take what they've learned to benefiting a competing nation, sort of training your replacement. Also, there is the security and IP theft aspect. What are the benefits?
The benefits are recruiting the best and brightest students from a pool of 8b people instead of only 300m people. And some of them (most, if encouraged?) will stay in the US after that and contribute to the economy.