March 01, 2017 07:36AM
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You're looking at things in a microscope. Tourism doesn't matter to a significant percentage of the 250 million wage-earning adults in this country. You can't get a job making furniture because the United States cannot produce furniture in the USD that is anywhere on the same level of cost basis as people who are producing timber through indentured servitude. Being in the south I'd think you'd appreciate how much we're *not* doing here because of impossible competition from abroad.
I'll also kinda add that we benefit directly from things that are considered human rights violations here. I think if you're buying your shoes from a factory in China you're not really any better than the people branding their worker's feet there. We can't afford to produce these goods not just because of fiat currency differences but because we abolished shitty things like slavery and forced servitude. It was good that we abolished those things but we shouldn't be buying from countries who produce goods or commodities with those techniques.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/01/2017 07:39AM by Death_Claw.
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