the low skill manufacturing jobs they took were going to leave the US anyway.

… Yes and no. A lot of junk, sure. But there was no necessity to move much of large scale manufacturing over—the primary reason it happened was rampant consumerism desiring the cheapness that lower standards brought, without regard to workers or the ability of the national economy to have a modern strength against foreign influence.

Production is fully capable to have been kept in the usa for a lot of products, as long as people were willing to buy less. It’d have been a greater benefit to our economy and the environment overall.

But tariffs aren’t the answer here - instead, the answer is to support local industries by giving them government contracts to produce their goods, which the government can then use and/or stockpile when we aren’t in a time of crisis.

Tariffs are an important tool. They should never be the only tool used from the tool box. But nonetheless, they’re important to disincentive the moving away manufacturing based just on wages. They make products more expensive, allowing local products to survive more easily —but if you rely on them too heavily, your local industries become stagnant.

Most goods are not reasonable to spend government money on as well. That works great for medical goods and food, but not much else.

That’s just the forward march of technological progress.

When companies like Amazon use that logic to cut wages to half of competition… I got a problem.

Hear! Hear!

America gave china the manufacturing jobs by failing to block slave labor imports and failing to put proper tariffs to account for differences in cost of living to a reasonable extent. I say this at risk of sounding like a trumpy…

This is to be clear that while I advocate for some level of global inter investment, having capacity in your home country is ever very important. Usa could’ve kept the jobs if they were smart back then.

that they are actively working on it, but to say they aren’t trying to fix it is just a lie

Your own statement clearly demonstrates intent yo worsen the system lol

some of the conservative ideas are trying to fix it,

No, they literally are not. You are making things up.

The people in the comments are also not 🤔

the meme is explicitly not talking about those people

The vast majority of parachutes are not

The fact that you think that makes me think you aren’t actually in the green tbh.

The stuff I’m not capable of doing, it’s not intelligence holding me back. And the stuff I’m capable of doing, well, I’m already there.

Meh

This is specifically why historically reporting your exploitation has been a path to citizenship for illegal/legal immigrants in the united states. It wasn’t a well known endeavor though , and I doubt it’s functioning has continued

The root cause is a lack of multi family housing. Corpos buying houses is not the primary issue with housing, though it is also a serious concern.

Yeah my grandma’s house

Having to work is not slavery, good god. That’s incredibly insulting to those who actually are slaves.

instead of getting food and housing in exchange for labor.

You do get food and housing in exchange for labor, it’s money.

You have options to fight back and get higher wages, like unionization. You can choose where to work which is NOT an illusion of choice, it’s a real one.

Your punishment for refusing to work

There is no form of society that can function without people working.

Why I broke up ngl

I wash myself prior to the bath not during it

We are not slaves by quite some stretch, as much as Republicans want that back. “Wage slavery” is a fun term, but it doesn’t actually reflect the variety of options people have available to them that real slaves do not.

As long as we can unionize, the chains cannot bind us.

Is this meme intentionally ignoring the massive progress on lgbt rights in the last decades or no? It’s an overly simplistic representation of a very complicated issue

Rain on a metal roof. Heavy is best. Drowns out the world

European on their 3rd pack

It’s unlawful. The president is not following the law