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Reindustrializing America requires people that are actually willing to work in a factory.
Won’t people be willing when the cost of living goes up so much and all the tech jobs are gone to foreign labor that they have to work factory jobs?
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The system that allows very wealthy to exist is also the reason the US has the highest class mobility among western nations. Also, on a purely pragmatic note, capital is mobile. If you penalize the rich, they just move, and then the new system will stop class mobility.
The globe can collaborate to make sure capital has nowhere to fly to. Form the USSA and get china onboard and let the USSR come back (they’re still the loyal opposition in today’s Russia) and capital will just fucking take it like they deserve to. What, you gonna go to the moon now?
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Reindustrializing America requires people that are actually willing to work in a factory.
Won’t people be willing when the cost of living goes up so much and all the tech jobs are gone to foreign labor that they have to work factory jobs?
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Books aren't tarrifed.
That's good, but do you think you'll be able to ship to the US without restriction? I don't see post office counter workers working their way through the official list of exemptions published by the WH https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Annex-...
Whenever I import goods the HS codes are provided for each item, so it shouldn't be hard to collect the correct amount of money for tariffs.
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That’s fine if you accept that you can’t force the rich at gunpoint to stay, or seize their wealth upon exit. But if they do choose to leave, or at least stop expanding their businesses, you can’t deny the rational self interest
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American real GDP per capita grew at 1.7% a year from 2015 to 2025 [2] From 2004 to 2024, Chinese PPP GDP/c grew 7.4% a year [4]. What an incredibly dishonest comparison!
What about it makes it dishonest? What do you think would be an honest comparison? And, if you do it, what numbers do you get?
Let's do a side by side comparison? 2018 to 2023? 2023 is the last year with solid numbers.
US: 12% real GDP growth
China: 26% real GDP growth
Sounds impressive, until you account for the base.
US: +$2.4T USD
China: +$3.64T USD
Yikes! 4x the number of people, but 0.5x the GDP growth.
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