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We don't need protectionist laws if capital is decentralized and financial organizations can't buy up land, labor, and capital.
Different approaches to the same problem. Its about the type of society we envision, not the policy.
You're talking about making the US economy less efficient than its global competitors. If other countries are able to produce most goods and services cheaper than they can in the US, then why would anyone in the US buy domestic goods without protectionist policies?
You're talking about making the US economy less efficient than its global competitors. If other countries are able to produce most goods and services cheaper than they can in the US, then why would anyone in the US buy domestic goods without protectionist policies?
Because it is the right thing to do.
More expensive goods=less consumption=less materialism=better environment and social stability. It will take a cultural shift but if our economy is no longer reliant on consumer spending the forces that keep this economic model (government policy and marketers) will subside.
Point being our smaller producers can still trade with foriegn producers, it just won't become a internal global supply chain across borders which leads to off-shoring.
More expensive goods=less consumption=less materialism=better environment and social stability. It will take a cultural shift but if our economy is no longer reliant on consumer spending the forces that keep this economic model (government policy and marketers) will subside.
Point being our smaller producers can still trade with foriegn producers, it just won't become a internal global supply chain across borders which leads to off-shoring.
We should all want that for our country I hope.
So you want the US to be more economically like the Amish?
So you want the US to be more economically like the Amish?
Not really. Though I think that lifestyle should be more viable to more people (its not right now because of our tax structure and need for consumer revenue).
I'm fine with resource extraction and cool tech, but it would be harder to implement/mass manufacture, craft goods will become more relevant, and the advanced goods we have access to will be much more primitive and less interconnected and (much) more expensive. And we still trade with others.
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