Tariffing is also not enough. Businesses need to be given incentives and punishments for doing the right and wrong things.

Tariffs are incentives/punishments tho

Unless you completely embargo a country, a fractional tax on select goods will barely dent companies.

You dont need to ruin them, only until your domestic industry is competitive

As for barely dent i disagree

I'm not saying it's necessary to destroy these companies, but they can handle a 10% hike. Companies are producing the majority of their product in China.

*Or other Asian countries

They can sell at a loss if they want frankly. Whats important is that our own manufacturing isnt choked out or entirely exported

We need manufacturing in America

Companies are actually moving to South Asia at alarming rates as well, to avoid the political cross-fire between US and China

So we can dominate the rest of the world in a war

And zeph is right.

If a war happens, its us versus everyone and I don't want them having us by the balls

I want to help forward automation to further this goal

I wish there was a voice channel here to discuss. I hate typing on mobile

We need armadas of drones

We should never have to lose another citizen in war ever again

An example of the ideal American market can be seen in the 1950s. The ethics were clearly superior.

Laws can't replace morality and culture of the people

With a good culture, people would be much more hesitant to exploit workers

This is not necessarily true. Morality and culture haven't evolved naturally over the past 50 years. Both have been molded by celebrities or corporations.

Look at south korea

They really don't like firing people even if they perform at low value

Because of supporting their family

It's all about hours

Different countries have different moral standards, so businesses tend to act differently in each country. I can agree on that.

But in the West, it seems that businesses have pushed this ultra-progressive agenda. They've been very successful at liberalizing the population.

That's a multi-faceted problem

That's not only businesses doing that

Yes, it's also celebrities and politicians.

Government pressure, school indoctrination, parents that don't teach their children

We've let them do their thing for decades

Only after seeing the damage do people say, we should do something!

I know it's a fashionable meme, but seriously, I know so many boomers that caused this shit

They had the mindset of: "not my generation, not my problem"

Esp when many were hippies

I partially blame WW2 for the decay of western society

Since the inception of this country, there has only ever been a steady march left. Once the govt takes something on it never gives it back. Now we have a bloated, unaccountable, quasi legislative quasi executive administrative state that it would take a practical civil war or constitutional amendment to pry away.

Celebrity culture is the front-face of cultural decadence.

It doesn't help when the government also controls education

Why are the democrats trash