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There is so much bullshit contained in this post, I don't know why I'm even wasting my time responding, but here we go...
>That is literally the only way to end consumerism and disposable slop
There's a reason I said *relatively* cheap - i.e. relative to what they'll be if companies are forced to pay their employees upwards of SIX TIMES more money.
Over the past 40 years, inflation-adjusted wages have been flat. With inflation already being an issue, the notion that more inflation = better, is spectacularly fucking stupid. Most people are barely making ends meet as it is, not simply because they're not financially responsible or too materialistic, but because pretty much everything is too goddamn expensive. If we were to cut off trade with China (which is not the plan btw, but nice head canon), we would be forced to manufacture quite a few things (that are already relatively expensive), causing the prices of these goods to skyrocket, thus putting the manufacturing jobs that Trump and his band of buffoons keep talking about in jeopardy (not to mention the fact that AI is going to be replacing most of these jobs soon, anyway).
And we're not just talking about iPhones here. We're talking clothing, furniture, cars/car parts, plastics, and a variety of machinery. We import 450 BILLION dollars worth of goods from China every year (that's around 14% of our imports). Replacing the majority of Chinese imports with "made in USA" goods would be catastrophic unless companies continue to pay their employees slave wages.
>I know a true compassionate and principled leftist would have pursued an accelerated path to citizenship
Most of them do/did. Don't blame leftists from the Trump's administration decision to purge all of them.
>sayin integrating them was heckin white supremacy
Oh for God's sake, stay the fuck off of /pol/, kiddo.
>"The economy" is the central bank
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