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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Of course it works out if you throw any numbers in that you want. Minimum hourly wage in the US is 7.25-ish in Alabama and the rest of the decrepit South, to 16-ish in California. I googled minimum wage in China and its roughly 3.40-ish at its highest. At the worst, China is half as expensive, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the disparity between the actual industrial areas of China and Califonia/Colorado for example might be 8x.

    Whats happening here is that the poorly educated South is wanting me to subsidize their lack of marketable job skills by making me pay extra for American goods instead of Chinese goods.

    And don’t forget that the extra money these Americans earn will be partially consumed by the extra cost of living anyways. Not to mention the years or decades of investment it will take to get factories set here anyways, all for low-skill, physically demanding, and mentally unengaging employment.

    Manufacturing should be automated anyways because nobody should have to sit at a conveyor belt all day and toil their lives away assembling dumb trinkets.



  • And we haven’t even addressed the whole reason manufacturing left in the first place. It’s so much cheaper to do it overseas, even accounting for shipping. It will cost America much more to produce items internally–and who is going to buy these extra-expensive items? America is a service economy and most people are working at Walmart or McDonald’s. These people can barely afford the cheap Chinese version, much less the expensive American version.

    So I guess they’re hoping wages will increase more than the extra expensive incurred by making our own items? Not going to happen, not in a million years.


















  • Get off your high horse; I don’t need to go read literature to understand what’s going on here because it is plainly evident. I have come across entire handfuls of these posts on social media; Lemmy, Reddit, and Twitter where people want to blame this amorphous concept of “white people”, “whiteness”, or whatever specific terminology they use to suggest white people are some master class responsible for their misfortunes. The real divide is financial, which is why you see class traitors of every race and background rise and become corrupted in office. Clarence Thomas is the perfect example of this, just to name a single one along with basically any black police officer or politician who chooses to abuse their position.

    I already mentioned somewhere else that basically every race has abused and marginalized every other race at some point in history. Race isn’t the inherent problem, but the desire to be superior for literally any reason. Today’s means to superiority is financial accumulation, combined with political power. Just because a small percentage of white people might be disproportionately putting other white people in positions of power, does NOT mean that “white people” are to blame. The abusers just happen to be white, and the nuance is important. It’s the same if they were black, yellow, red, or green.

    Your example is also poor because you’re picking and choosing examples. On one hand, we have people accusing “white people” of wrongdoing because they are “white people”, which would be the same as me saying that “black people” are responsible of crime because they’re black. The real problem is not that they are black, but that they may be disadvantaged, which isn’t an inherent trait associated with their race. Them being black doesn’t make them bad, the same way that a white person being white doesn’t make them bad, even if other white people are wrong-doers.

    And yes, you can be racist against white people. There is no definition that suggests racism is only possible against a certain type of person, which is ironically the exact definition of being racist.

    Stop being racist. Look outside your social media bubble and accept that black people can be racist against white people, along with literally any other race of person, and that racism is on full display in the original post here. And it’s on display with you for the entire world to see.