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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
They did more than showing up 8 hours a day. They built stuff, stuff that;s now done overseas.
You're part of the past. good luck hanging onto your income when few have enough money to buy what you offer.
Go back 100 years and see where we're heading. See the gap in wages between rich and poor.
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For fucks sake Markham it is not rocket science why Trump is popular in the ex manufaturing regions, not even gfy needs your pretty pictures to illustrate the point.
But what are the solutions ?
Get rid of the computers and the robots ?
Go back to one TV and one car per household ?
The prosperity that the west enjoys today is dependent on low cost economies to create consumer goods. Wishing it was 1950 does not change anything. Adding import duties will not create jobs, it will just make the raw materials for US business more expensive.
With regards to the multi nationals that hoard vast sums off shore, Trump will actually make that problem worse. To tackle the power of the multi nationals you need cooperation between countries, not isolationist policies that disregard the outside world. Apple will always be one step ahead.