An amazing insult, tbh

The Repubs wanted to come in and strong-arm everybody into doing what they wanted. They didn’t consider that the other guy could just walk away and avoid the interaction entirely tho. Gonna be seeing a lot more of this

Of course it works out if you throw any numbers in that you want. Minimum hourly wage in the US is 7.25-ish in Alabama and the rest of the decrepit South, to 16-ish in California. I googled minimum wage in China and its roughly 3.40-ish at its highest. At the worst, China is half as expensive, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the disparity between the actual industrial areas of China and Califonia/Colorado for example might be 8x.

Whats happening here is that the poorly educated South is wanting me to subsidize their lack of marketable job skills by making me pay extra for American goods instead of Chinese goods.

And don’t forget that the extra money these Americans earn will be partially consumed by the extra cost of living anyways. Not to mention the years or decades of investment it will take to get factories set here anyways, all for low-skill, physically demanding, and mentally unengaging employment.

Manufacturing should be automated anyways because nobody should have to sit at a conveyor belt all day and toil their lives away assembling dumb trinkets.

But they’re not going to increase wages to account for us having to spend 55 dollars on something that used to cost 5. So the end result is just that people end up with less overall. I’m cool with limiting consumerism, but this isn’t the way to do it imo. And it’s not going to make us “richer” as a nation.

And we haven’t even addressed the whole reason manufacturing left in the first place. It’s so much cheaper to do it overseas, even accounting for shipping. It will cost America much more to produce items internally–and who is going to buy these extra-expensive items? America is a service economy and most people are working at Walmart or McDonald’s. These people can barely afford the cheap Chinese version, much less the expensive American version.

So I guess they’re hoping wages will increase more than the extra expensive incurred by making our own items? Not going to happen, not in a million years.

Giving your kid liver damage to own the libs lol

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Why do they put him in that bullet proof vest? To protect him from the police? Haha

Yeah, the weirdest freaks I ever seen were the ones who were repressed growing up lol

Oh, like through mutual funding of an overarching entity? We could call it an “Emergency Management Agency” of some sort lmao

I feel that. I love fancy crazy beers, but the prices are getting outrageous nowadays. Theres a four pack of cans that looks interesting at my local grocery store, but it’s almost 15 dollars for the privilege.

Do you know what I like even more than fancy beer? Not getting screwed and taken advantage of. At the end of the day, beer isn’t even healthy for me anyways–the choice to slow down or stop is no problem at all tbh.

I made this joke last night to a friend. Why haven’t the MAGA freaks stopped for one second to think that maybe God sent the severe weather after them for voting in Trump and his entourage of assholes?

I guess they just don’t think, is the problem–lol.