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   Andrea Junker :verified: (strandjunker@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 05:55:26 JST Andrea Junker :verified:

   Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 08:01:47 JST Rich Felker

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     • Wokebloke for Democracy

     @dougiec3 @Strandjunker And it's not even because of "cheap labor" that they'd be paying more for stuff. It's because while we were twiddling our thumbs looking increasingly elaborate ways to con people out of their money doing stuff of zero or negative value, China was busy actually learning how to manufacture shit *without needing much labor*. And now if we want to make anything here, the only way we know how to do it is with lots of expensive labor, and poor results.

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     Wokebloke for Democracy (dougiec3@libretooth.gr)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 08:01:49 JST Wokebloke for Democracy

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     @Strandjunker
     The irony does abound, doesn't it? Who would think that people in the US actually want to pay more for stuff?