Just stop trading manufactured products with Asia.

Their people are still transitioning from agrarian hardship to urban factory life, and there seems to be a zeal that comes with this transition, a willingness to work hard for what here today would be considered little.

Good for them. But in Europe we had this transition already and we became disillusioned with the lifestyle tradeoffs.

Having our people do nothing productive while all of our life objects are made by others is not sustainable and it is awful for the morale of our peoples. It needs to be stopped.

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dinkblam 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> It needs to be stopped.

forcing germans to buy everything at 10 times of what it costs now is not the way to rescue the country

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pfannkuchen 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Can you please think through what would happen a bit further? What you say here is a first order analysis on a very short time scale. It does not capture the end state of such a change. The acceptable transition period for a change depends on the severity of the problem the change is targeting, and in this case here the problem is quite severe, so our acceptable transition period should at least be measured in half decades, not weeks.

	▲	kragen 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No, we've been trying it here in Argentina for the last 75 years. When we started, we were one of the richest countries in the world. The end state is worse than you can possibly imagine. It's not the way to rescue the country.
	▲	twodave an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The harsh reality is that the world as it is depends on what amounts to slave labor, and that is priced into (or out of, rather) the goods that are imported. The mental and economic gymnastics involved in justifying it or pretending otherwise are just window dressing.
	▲	chasil 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		How is Apple not a forbidden product after this wall comes down? Perhaps you can limit the allowed manufactured units to India, but the U.S. also wants those.

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ReptileMan 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

>Their people are still transitioning from agrarian hardship to urban factory life, and there seems to be a zeal that comes with this transition, a willingness to work hard for what here today would be considered little.

You don't find hordes of Chinese peasants in their dark factories.

Do you think that JLCPCB offer such prices because they have 2000000 lowly paid machinists drilling the pcb holes manually? China invests in all kinds of automation like crazy