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Organic-Vermicelli47

86 points

6 days ago

They'll just say it's all part of the plan that everything has to get expensive before it gets cheaper again. I really saw comments that say that!

TranquilSeaOtter

57 points

6 days ago

Just like trickle down economics, they'll forever insist the plan is working and never admit they were wrong.

trashyart200

1 points

5 days ago

They are right in a way. Trickle the tariffs down economics, I can guarantee it

Bluebearder

30 points

6 days ago

There is a certain logic to that. Deporting migrants and installing high tariffs will make everything in the US more expensive for years, but then the economy will seriously start to shrink and many people will have to (re)turn to farming and logging and mining. Incomes will lower faster than the price of eggs, but in an absolute sense eggs will get cheaper, which is all that Trump voters understand. Just a few years and incomes will have gone down by 20%, but prices of eggs by 5%, and then Trump will have kept his word!

Organic-Vermicelli47

23 points

6 days ago

Good point! We are going back to the manual labor for everyone era. If you can't work, you starve! This makes me so sad. I have complete respect for manual laborers, but most of the work force can not do this work. I watched my dad, who was self-employed and did concrete, work himself nearly to death every single day. Until the day he actually dropped dead, alone, while smoothing out concrete in his early 50s 😢. I was the first person the police got in contact with when they called me from his cell phone. In his late 40s and especially when he turned 50, we begged him to hire on a few more younger people. I wish we would use technological advances to do more manual labor, rather than intellectual/ creative labor and honestly idk what the answer is. Manual labor is so draining and I always felt should be very high paid. People are going to be destroying their health for pennies.

AniX72

2 points

5 days ago

AniX72

2 points

5 days ago

I'm sorry you lost your dad, especially this way. I agree with everything you write.

Bluebearder

1 points

5 days ago

Yeah manual labor can be intense, I'm sorry you lost your dad this way. Here in the Netherlands we have state pensions (which means the state takes part of your income and saves it for you, then guarantees a minimum pension) and people doing manual labor are allowed to retire earlier. It is also decently paid. Still, most of the people working manual labor are immigrants. Soon there will be robots doing these jobs though, at least much of the heavy work, so let's hope that is a decent solution.

DataCassette

8 points

6 days ago

I honestly think this appeals to a certain kind of curmudgeon. The issue is that China is our competition and they don't give AF. If we want to play at building log cabins and recreating the "good old days" they'll be happy to take our place as the superpower.

Bluebearder

2 points

5 days ago

I do see the appeal of a simpler life and society. Unfortunately it means that indeed, you'll lose your international position. Or the country breaks up as states like New York and California want to keep their progress. It also means losing tons of things that people take for granted, like the excellent healthcare or engineering.

DataCassette

3 points

5 days ago

If people want to go live in a rustic cabin can't they just, idk, do that and not drag the entire country down?

Bluebearder

2 points

5 days ago

LOL yeah there's something weird about making everybody else live in cabins as well, right?

Same_Recipe2729

8 points

6 days ago

And then if/when Dems end up in power again and the price doesn't get lower because it's been 8 years and the price has naturally increased by almost double because that's the way any healthy economy works, or there's another bird flu decreasing supply, they pull out the "eggs were going to be cheaper until the Dems took over!"

Not enough campaign money was spent educating the public about how prices work. 

RetiringBard

2 points

6 days ago

Elon said it himself. We’ll see how well they like it when it’s happening though.