@mario_anchor@JamesSurowiecki It's hilarious how quickly you all turned into champions of the system that has produced the worst income inequality in history to keep your 401k at all-time highs. You have precisely zero constructive ideas besides perpetual massive deficit spending. You are the conservatives.
@JamesSurowiecki@pdxjask You hate exports. You went to elite prep schools and yale. You're deeply biased against manufacturing and the kinds of people do it. You've never done a single thing with your hands in your life. You're completely out of your depth on these issues.
@mu_phd@Z09752769@JamesSurowiecki This is the disconnect: you're talking about a hypothetical "typical american" and ignoring real live human beings. Free trade created winners and losers. Also how does not being able to buy cheap fast fashion shoes and apparel from vietnam lowers anyone's "quality of life"?
@mu_phd@Z09752769@JamesSurowiecki "better sourced" means someone in vietnam is paid pennies on the dollar to do something an American human being used to do for a living wage. That American doesn't care what your textbook says about comparative advantage
@mu_phd@Z09752769@JamesSurowiecki Lol. How's life on on $20/hour? Go check out Flint and let me know what you think. Should the people there still learn to code?
@JamesSurowiecki Isn't the idea to bring jobs to the people who voted for him and who have been living in what are basically third world conditions for decades? You're ignoring the human costs of the definition of "comparative advantage" you read on investopedia
@mu_phd@Z09752769@JamesSurowiecki What you're all missing is that the quality of life of many Americans (a large part of Trump's constituency) is Great Depression-level low already because people in other countries who make pennies per hour do the jobs those Americans used to do.