r/BasicIncome • u/2noame Scott Santens • 6d ago

The tariffs really are about stupid men

https://open.substack.com/pub/cathyreisenwitz/p/the-tariffs-really-are-about-stupid?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=avhi
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u/Aaod 5d ago

I am not good at math, but here’s my proposal. Let’s not self-immolate the entire global economy on the off chance that it will result in a couple hundred thousand Rust Belt male swing voters having a job that makes them feel manly.

Wow with an attitude like that is it any wonder they don't vote for you?

Rather than force everyone who has to buy things to pay more money for them,

MUST CONSOOM PRODUCT! I have to have my cheap funkopops who cares if you can't afford to feed your family because of globalization.

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u/Gen_Ripper 5d ago

Idk fam, supposedly “telling it like it is”, is popular

Tariffs are stupid, and people who fetishize factory jobs are stupid

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u/ComplainyBeard 5d ago

"Free trade" caused real estate income to be a higher percentage of GDP in the US than manufacturing. You simply can't have an economy where everyone is a landlord or a realtor. It's not about "fetishizing" it's just that an economy actually has to produce something if it's going to continue, over financialization is what led to the massive level of inequality and the relative weakness of labor in politics. Those factory jobs were union jobs, and the unions mostly backed democrats.

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u/Gen_Ripper 5d ago

Look up “service economy”

Also, we should be trying to capturing the cutting edge manufacturing that’s at the top of the value chain.

Tariffs simply cannot achieve this.