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    In the end the great success of getting through this might be a new approach to making most of what we need in the US, to employ more Americans, to move toward some portion of self-sustainability. Medical supplies, household products, staples of daily life and necessities of all kinds. All the shit we killed jobs for to make overseas for pennies on the dollar.

    I’ve been daydreaming for years about what it would take for us to make that kind of a radical shift. To pay slightly higher for certain goods because it was made in America by American employees.

    Just imagine that happening. Imagine that as an eventuality to regrow the economy and unite people after the crisis of a lifetime.

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    • This is a supply-chain wake up call. I hope that happensGnash
    • Me too. It’s a supply chain wake up. It’s a blue-collar, respect the hard work wake up call.mg33
    • Ironically this is what trump got voted in for, his lips were in The right place but his actions, his brains and his mouth are in a whole other planet._niko
    • The downside to anti globalization is shifts in power, currency, war. There are certain securities when all are connected
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    • Through commerce
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    • Point in case I our ability to set up so much helicopter money through our pull and commerce. If we sink others sink. To skim the eco pol aspects
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    • cant buy american goods if you dont get paid enough.pango
    • cant complete is the profit is not high enough.pango
    • This kind of idea that we need to be entirely self-contained and self-sufficient is essentially the North Korean ethos, juche.yuekit
    • I don’t think making everything in USA, as much as it might appeal to patriotic instincts, is going to magically result in higher wages or prosperity.yuekit
    • Think back to the early 20th century...there was far less globalization and a huge amount of industry in the USA. But conditions for workers were shit,yuekit
    • and the Spanish flu and other viruses still got here and killed tens of millions.yuekit
    • True capitalism lifts all. As it has done. Exporting labor from us towards poor nations helped them rise. Problems is progressive wage controls
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    • But there is a basic reason for wage co trols in a country with a reserve currency. We grow our wealth and limit labor outside and we benefit
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    • We use capitalism as much as China uses it. Albeit we are still much better off on freedom than them
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    • But also the Chinese culture of people throughout history for like ants. Drones with no big wishes
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    • ^ deathboy is the real chinese here. he's the expert on chinese people.pango
    • It would be great but I think the system and the people will fall back in their old shoes pretty quicklyBennn
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