• Dark_Blade@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You assume that most of these companies wouldn’t just move to a single destination that wouldn’t do the same shit that America did, which is to cater to rich people so that they can generate massive wealth for themselves and the governments of that nation. Unless the entire population of the world decides on a system that’s not like this one, it won’t happen; period. It’ll just shift elsewhere.

    And no matter how bad America is, I can imagine worse alternatives (hint: 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

            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

                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

      Yes how about trying to imagine better alternatives instead of assuming everything impossible then.

      If the US led world order collapses that might be bad temporarily for US residents and it would be a great win for almost everyone else, almost by necessity. Again many winners few losers, much like the wealth tax. And not everyone needs to actually take up a better system, this is completely true in our current system already.

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        1 year ago

        That’s such a narrow take. It won’t just be ‘bad temporarily for US citizens’ if the only country that’s a counter to China ceases to be a pre-eminent world player.

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          You know the world has other places than China and the US right. And that the us can still be a very powerful country without being the current hegemon. Certainly a welath tax wouldn’t achieve such impressive collapse in less than a few decades. The only real problem with a complete downfall of us hegemony might actually be the Taiwan situation.

          But literally all of africa and south America would be in a much better situation if the US wouldn’t continue to have the power to protect some of its more historic foreign assets large parts of SEA and the middle east would also have much to celebrate.

          You seem strangely scared of china while having little empathy towards anyone that might be suffering under US aligned rule. My take isn’t narrow but your view of the world might be. If you are at least from the US I might understand somewhat, if not then yikes.