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Trump is just reducing American consumption so we can hit our climate goals. Art of the deal strikes again! The winning never stops

As long as the gas chambers are up to code, who am I to judge? - Lib circa 1944

Who's the genius to sanitized American history, I think Goebbels could learn a few things from them. Modern American education even though college makes modern American history seem like a bunch of helpless minorities decided to protest until the benevolent white people gave them rights, and modern political activism shows it. The history of labor is barely even mentioned.

I think all volumes of capital combined are like 1000 pages?

Marx himself wrote this long ass book explaining the capitalism of his time, yet modern leftist have no interest understanding the capitalism of their time.

Shipping stuff is cheap if you have alot of it for example

https://freightify.com/ship-containers/china puts a 40ft container at max $6000, which in practice can fit around 26000kg, so per kg you are paying around 26 cents per kg shipped. You would get even better deals I assume if you had contracts setup to do bulk business with freighters

Surely we can charge more than 1B

People are dumb, no need for any American Exceptionalism here

We need a Georgist community on lemmy. Rent Seekers BEGONE

You can get Chinese prices if your citizens are willing to work like the Chinese, no one in the West will.

Autarky is also largely a degrowth argument, most Westerners already feel like they should consume even more so it's impossible to win unless your voters fall for Donald Trump esque arguments. The modern Westerner lives one of the most opulent lives in the world history on the back of cheap third world labor.

edit: If you believe the Trump admin has a plan, they are trying to thread needle by devaluing the US Dollar just enough to incentivize manufacturing, but keeping it high enough that the average US consumer doesn't feel the hit. They then leverage tariffs for preferential trade deals with other countries. I don't think its really working but its the only way you could revitalize manufacturing in the west at this point

Its a good litmus test if someone has any intellectual curiosity, I know people who have prestigious degrees who think stuff like this.

Mostly depends how attractive you are