It just makes sense to manufacture in China

I don't lose sleep over it...I'll be checking out before the black pudding hits the fan! Self-employment is pathetic due to people want get-rich-quick schemes and are not interested in working 60-70 hours a week to develop something. Business entry costs are also ridiculous. Pacifico beer corporation dominates some of my life and I don't mind...

 

Then you're a fan of the corporation, rather than freedom. Isn't that the American norm mind you? Given they've given up on freedom, the right wingers using pretend freedom to defend their warped preferences have really gone off on one!

 

An interesting and complicated discussion which we have had other threads about in the past.

I posted multiple threads on this topic, but no one ever seems to read them. I ask myself what's the point of taking the time to post threads when nobody will read them or, even if they do, will not be able to make the connections between that and other things.

Guess what? We actually have an "Asia" section in this forum. If you want to figure out the answer you can go dig through the past fifty threads in there.
I'm sure there are probably some threads about China in the Economics & Trade section as well. Might have to go back more than a year ago.

 

Whining?

Pointing out decisions that disembowels Americans is now whining? All in the interest of enriching the elites ? By doing to foreign workers what we don't allow here?

That you don't care and justify it ...well let us hope your mindset isn't what our future is! For if so there won't be much of a middle class. Not that you give a rat's arse. Ideological neoliberals never do. To those folks work has no value for only value is found in investment exclusively. And that is the change in philosophy behind that is foundational to anti worker neo liberalism..

That isn't whining, that's the dirty truth of the matter.

If you were not so old as I am, you would see just what such thinking does to the people of America that have average IQs. If the only people who prosper are high IQ people or those with wealth, inherited, that leaves most Americans in sad shape and people like you will be hung. Read some damn history.

Your way destroys this country. And you are too ideological driven to see it.

This isn't whining its pointing out how dangerous your thinking is.

 

And if you move production offshore consumers buy foreign made sweat shop products. Good grief. If made here they buy US made goods. You are deceptive.

 

The "just in time" supply chain with China and India and Malaysia works reasonably well in good times. There's lots of money to be made and low prices....

But it DOESN'T work well in times of "troubles"...like pandemics or wars

 

The US always had competition for gods sake! Our wiser leaders just would not make our people compete with cheap labor from poor foreign workers.

Nor would they offshore our economy. For our own people need those jobs. You ignore all of this.

 

I was gone for a spell.

 

Polio was an issue for more than a decade.The Corona virus no doubt will pass also but its psychological effects will be felt for a long time. The long term economic effects are anybody's guess.

 

Finding a cure for the coronavirus would be tantamount to being able to find a cure for the common cold.

Something that has been dreamed about for a long time, but never successfully done.

But now let's try to get this thread back on topic.

 

Okay, let me try to find one or two of them:
China has an intractable demographic problem
China's economic Bubble will burst soon

 

All corporations are not great...and all corporations are not bad. Hard to imagine the US without the automobile corporations, banking and technology and research corporations, etc. etc.? A corporation is merely a different tax and liability system. It's healthy in society and the economy to have a reasonable balance of all economic tools.

It truly is not possible to rationally explain what is happening today with conservatives in the US? They are no longer the traditional Republican party who prefer fiscal responsibility and smaller government. It's a chaotic mess living in the moment with zero goals/plans or concern for the future...every person for themselves!

 

In your case it's whining and diatribe...

 

I believe in the global marketplace and want nothing to do with isolationism! Everywhere I look in the US I see business success stories! This is partially achieved by operating in a global marketplace. People like you don't understand the complexity of the US economic system and only focus on the political buzz words of this moment. YOU simply don't get it?? If American companies desired to compete for all the current imports, they would! But there are reasons they either can't or don't want to. Again...you're all diatribe and zero substance...

 

Yes I ignore your failure to understand reality...

 

When I read posters yell "Corporation" I know very well they have no clue about corporations and focus on politics. When they do as done to you, causing your explanations, one wonders who taught them to hate corporations?

When they watch a movie, do they curse those corporations? When they dress in the AM, do they curse those corporations? As they chat here, do they curse the corporation making their computer?

No private party can make that computer giving them the place to curse corporations. A corporation afforded them that luxury.

 

It just makes sense to manufacture in China. Yeah, they did a banger of a job on creating Covid 19.

 

or masks.

 

I suggest most people who whine about everything are clueless to knowledge, facts and reality. Many hear something on their favorite political TV or radio station then parrot the idea ad nauseam without taking the time to research the information. Some are reckless on purpose to spread lies and misinformation. Others are just too lazy to research. Both are a detriment to the US. Both are also rooted in ignorance and there is no solution for ignorance...

BTW; long ago I thought the Internet and all the information available in a few seconds time would make us smarter. I was dead wrong and didn't consider people's laziness and/or religious/political biases...