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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Do you really believe one President can turn back the tide of 40 years?
They started making cheap stuff, now they lead the world in many technologies. Putting Americans and Europeans out of work, on lower pay and some needing government money to live. Those extra costs make the lower labour costs in the Third World irrelevant.
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you're forgetting something very important.
these 3rd world countries were, are and will always be more productive when it comes to the use of people. that's not new that's been the case for thousands of years.
they are 3rd because the 1st were always one step ahead when it comes to long-term thinking and new technologies.
germany, for example, is quite far behind in the race for e-mobility and the reason for this is that there are no battery factories there. the chinese believed in this development and have the infrastructure and production for it already and they are FAR in front of europe and US when it comes to alternative energies and peripher supplyment.
unfortunately, batteries are too heavy to be transported cheaply over long distances. therefore the chinese are building now a battery factory directly in germany and creating many german jobs with german workers. and here it makes MUCH sense because the high transportation costs and the big ammount makes it worth to produce it in the country with much higher wages.
trump doesn't believe in climate change and prefers to mine coal rather than invest in future technologies and thus stay one step ahead of the chinese.
wind, solar, ground heat, waves and much more that not only makes our planet healthier but also creates new industries are unknown to trump.
he created a few 10 k new coal jobs but no one talks about the jobs he killed in this new technology. even when solar parts has been mainly produced in china they have been sold by american companies, maintained and installed by american workers.
and they have to eat coal now.
you can't expect other countries to stop developing just because one of the big ones wants to rest or does not believe in progress. standstill is regression.
and just like you don't understand the world of the internet any more today and assume that they can never do it as great as you could. trump doesn't know how to deal with the challenges of a new world.
he belongs in a retirement home and not on a presidential chair