They're burning down Paris because they're being fucked by legislation

Legislation is also why sweatshop labourers are "stealing" your jobs

which country?

Because it is cheaper to ship materials and products around the globe

>insert western nation here

but the solution cant be to hide from the issue

every country has half of the people are below average

even western ones

50/50 chance we have a bunch in here

if you sacrifice the unskilled people. you sacrifice your middle class

you can say you are WHOLLY DEPEND on your Chinese Gods to produce cheap goods to stay competitive

but you sacrifice your weakest citizens

so low skilled labor gets unemployed, and middle skilled labor gets paid poor skilled wages

if you drop a few million low skilled/ no language skilled people on the EU

the system will snap in half

just like health care that nobody talks about

almost no drugs are made in the EU

cause of low profit, and high regulation

so the health care system is reliant on US innovation to stay competitive

if the US were to impose tariffs on medical products the EU socialized system would also break.

that's why Sweden hasn't really grown in a decade https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/gdp-growth?continent=g20

now drop that on a population of around 10 million. What could possibly go wrong?"

/rant

lol

"Every country has half the people below average"
That's called statistics
>unskilled = middle class
Not really
If you wanna talk about why economies and why they're fucked, look to legislation m8. Why inflation is consistent, why costs for labour and living are so high, how the power and money consolidation happens

true

China is cheaper, even with shipping costs and tariffs, because costs in the US are too high

Because the goal in the west is, in effect, artificial growth

Oh, c'mon, 'costs in the US are too high' is complete rubbish.

Saving money is discouraged, buying on credit is incentivized. Hiring locally is discouraged, outsourcing is incentivized

How so?

If it costs more to hire an American to produce for Americans than it does to outsource to a country halfway around the world and ship everything to/from there, and people will still buy your product, who is going to hire Americans?

My answer to that hypothetical is to either ban offshoring or raise tariffs sky-high.

But you've conceded my point then

There are some things that china are just well placed to produce. Most of that is tech stuff. And thats partly resources they owned inside their borders, and ones they have "secured" outside it.

There are also things that China does a shit job of producing at what would generally be considered acceptable standards in the west, but it hasn't caused people to buy local 🤔

'Buy American' isn't being marketed very effectively.

How much cheap steel and lead paint does it take to cause domestic purchasing? Apparently a substantial amount

Who isn't marketing it effectively?

Consumers have to be informed about cheap steel and lead paint if they're ever going to avoid it.

They are, frequently