hanimmal
Well-Known Member
First just because something is a big number that takes a long time to count doesn't mean that China is going to be able to hurt us without devastating themselves too, and we would still be relatively ok.
Labor is far cheaper in China. But this pandemic shows that cheaper labor doesn't stop you from having to shut down production during pandemics which are just going to get more dangerous.
This gets to what I think is the big problem that has not been dealt with since the 80s. All of that labor in the states that lost their jobs because using human labor over machines that take far fewer people should have been trained in another field or retired, while being paid a wage the entire time. America still would have came out ahead with the savings that all the Americans had with building stuff in China/elsewhere.
It reminds me of this scene:
I think this combined with loss of total power in our economy, society, and government is why so many white men have fell into the trap of the Right wing propaganda of hate of the 'other'. They were sold a lie by their dads/granfathers for their entire lives that when they get older they would be taking their jobs and be 'king of the castle', and 'man of the house', and 'when you get older you'll understand' etc and now that they are older they are being proven wrong by little kids with cell phones, having to deal with their white male insecurities with females and minorities in the workplace, and no longer able to rape their wives when they are all angry from a hard day at work.
Also the 'lazy American' thing is played out, humans are humans, thinking one is going to be more or less lazy might sound good to some, but it is incorrect.
