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- Salarrue1
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/0…
"In this new cold war, a deindustrialized United States is a disarmed United States—a country that is precariously vulnerable to coercion, espionage, and foreign interference. Preserving American preeminence will require reconstituting a national manufacturing arrangement that is both safe and reliable—particularly in critical high-tech sectors. If the United States is to secure its supply chains and information networks against Chinese attacks, it needs to reindustrialize. The question today is not whether America’s manufacturing jobs can return, but whether America can afford not to bring them back."
- industrial automation that would bring the US or UK in line with the countries they import from without first destroying legal monopolies that further profit akingsteven
- rulling class = civil warkingsteven
- Outsource everything to China
What did the US expect would happen?utopian - /\ In fairness it's the same in canada and most of the world. Production is a tangible thing we gave up in the pursuit of investing in the idea of easy.ben_
- Bring in Mexico as a protectorate, like Puerto Rico, and have them serve as our source of cheap manufacturing labor. In return, more open borders, etc.MondoMorphic
- Under which government would that happen, exactly?ben_
- ^ china + korea have a well educated workforce and highest investment in automation. you cant just reindustrialise a service economy and expect job creationkingsteven
- these days. and your automating jobs in existing US manufacturing in the process...kingsteven
- yes, agreed... the west has spent trillions educating, training and arming (so to speak) the east with everything to ensure america will never bring this scaleben_
- of production back. in the meantime the people that would do these jobs in america are deathboying their stimulus cheques.ben_
- Unless reindustrializing is more profitable than offshoring it just won't happen. That's capitalism.i_monk
- ^ unless the robots that take your job are made in chinakingsteven
- US needs to get back to this style of working https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- Damn, we’re those macs made in the USA?Gnash
- Its too late isnt it? They learned the tech now they're building up on it.Beeswax
- Capitalism, how do they work?Bennn
- Those early macs were at the very least assembled domestically. Funny the scale of those sales is tiny compared to today.ben_
- Essentially what this article is saying is that American style laissez faire capitalism cannot compete with Chinese style socialism or state capitalism.yuekit
- None of the things the author talks about will be possible unless the USA drops its current mindset and is willing to spend big on R&D, infrastructure etcyuekit
- If only there was a group of people that had spent 100+ years theorizing methods of peacefully restructuring industry based on existing individualist principleskingsteven
- American companies won't want to pay the workers a living wage so it will never happen.PhanLo
- And a rulling class hadnt spent as long synonymising anarchism withwith violence.kingsteven
- People won't pay $2500 for an iPhone and WallStreet doesn't want an Apple that doesn't have 50%+ margins.formed
- utopian0
- lolmoldero
- How to Eagle.teh
- Camouflaged droneislandbridge
- drunk eagle is drunkdocpoz
- JackRyan0
So wait, is it ok or not ok to be racist now?
- not ok to be racist, but ok to be not ok, BUT if you're a racist if you are ok with that. Ok?locustsloth
- americans are not a racescarabin
- monolith0
Thank god these fucking scumbags didn't win and that most of America understand what's up
Romney’s Priority After Losing Election: Cancel Staff Credit Cards
No doubt a whole host of Boston taxi drivers found themselves stiffed when it came to tips early Wednesday morning. That’s what happens when the money trickles up, not down.
This is why healthy economies don’t depend on the trickle down whims of overlords. The minute Richie Rich decides he doesn’t need all that staff ... well, that’s that.
In case you are wondering, this did not have to happen. The Mitt Romney for President campaign does not end with Romney’s Tuesday night loss. There are bills to be paid, and papers to be filed with various federal commissions. But clearly not those taxi bills.
- pango0
WOOT! :D
- rylamar0
- excuse me ms. jackson!teh
- *i can't stop postingscarabin
- *or eating_niko
- woo, this is foreal
BrokenHD - iam afraid of those fanatics, fo realbenfal99
- bhahahahahaahaMiguex
- she's funnier now than she was ever on SNL
fooler - She knows Romney is mormon right?wagshaft
- @Fooler - truer words have never been spoken!!!GM278
- This is an adult?webazoot
- qoob0
- teh0
I wish america was a little more like canada and a lot more like switzerland, sweden and thailand and japan and...
- sweden and japan are overrated. Fucked up laws a plenty. Swtizerland has some good shit though.futuremongolian
- G.R.E.E.D.brandelec
- thailand peopel while drag politicians into the street and murder them if they fuck with them.teh
- ukit20
- Somehow, the daughter is responsible for her father's downfall. Somehow.detritus
- haha.Fax_Benson
- daughter lit that fire!teh
- she carries with her a secret happiness within... you can see it in this photoprophetone
- _niko0
- right on brother!teh
- fuck yeah!CygnusZero4
- Lincoln was wrong. He could have let them go and gave them New Jersey as a going away present.CyBrainX
- ETM0
- monkeyshine0
The high pitched hyperbole is really ridiculous. I have family members who are posting some crazy sht on FB and I just cannot wrap my head around how anyone could be so brainwashed...I get not liking the guy. I did not like Bush and I was so disappointed when he was reelected but wtf?