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Just proving Carney’s point.

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[–] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 128 points 2 weeks ago (34 children)

Everything we buy from the US is made in China anyway, so we're just cutting out the middleman.

If we can eliminate US IP protection next then we can build our own technology and do away with them completely.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (27 children)

This is a super important point. You go to Home Depot and you see something with the American flag on it. You turn it over - "Made in the USA with domestic and global materials." Read - a lot of Chinese inputs, parts and subassemblies. That along with a small markup for the fellow poorly paid American assembly worker, and a huge markup for the corporation owner. Cut the middle man and let the American worker deal with him many-on-one - something that has to happen anyways, if this shit is to ever get better.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Or it was made with prison labour.

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

That's a very nice way of describing legal slavery.

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