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Tired of cheap chinese crap everywhere. Maybe people will start saving their money and actually buy good quality stuff locally— not made with Foxconn-style labour. Low time preference.

How are tariffs on china a bad thing in this sense? I get that it’s a lot more complicated, with iphones being assembled by foxconn and the complexities of the supply chain… but still, isn’t this directionally ok? Even if we have to pay a higher price?

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Matt Corallo 8mo ago

Because the tariffs are also on raw materials and parts, making it unreasonably expensive to manufacture things in the US. If the tariffs were only on fished goods or strategic industries that might be different.

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