• IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Wait, do you mean the China that American companies have already moved to and paid taxes to in order to avoid paying US taxes and employing American workers, thus never contributing to the creation of wealth in the US? THAT China?

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      1 year ago

      …are you fucking serious right now? Do you really think that offshoring your manufacturing means ‘moving out of America’, or that it’s done to ‘avoid paying taxes’? Do you not understand that the vast majority of a company’s value isn’t created in the sweatshops where laborers are paid nickels and dimes, but in the boardrooms of megacorps where marketing departments put thousand-dollar labels on smartphones that cost a hundred dollars to make?

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        1 year ago

        Yes. I totally get that. And if they dont want to pay workers and have a decent profit in favor of not paying workers for an obscene profit, they they can pack their asses up and move to China and let Xi tell them how to run their business.

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          1 year ago

          Wow, rock solid argument. ‘Yeah, idc if the US economy loses literal trillions if companies like MS and Apple move out! Who cares right?!’

          Seriously, thanks for reminding me that, while things are already pretty fucking bleak, we’re still not living in the worst-case scenario.

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            1 year ago

            That is some serious corporate cuckery there, bro. Are you sure you arent three CEOs in a trenchcoat?

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              1 year ago

              Better that than someone with no substantial argument to make. Maybe take some time to actually learn about how our economy functions? From books I mean, not YouTube videos

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                1 year ago

                Our ecconomy does not function. It is wildly dysfunctional. It collapses on a regular basis by design. I for one am not going to defend it or the people who cause those collapses.