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In reply to the discussion: Free traders, and I mean all of them, worldwide, do you understand what's wrong here? [View all]Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Is a US brand car company's vehicle built outside the US any less expensive than ones they build here when they're assembled in both places? This happens often, but cars assembled in maliquidoras cost no less at a dealership.
Are "brand name" designer clothing/footwear any lass expensive made overseas? Hardly. They're still charging a premium based on brand cache, and thugs are still mugging people for their 150 dollar basketball shoes made in China.
Interesting though you would inquire as to how to "convince" the hoi-polloi that higher prices would be offset by higher wages The real question is that how many so many allowed the genie out of the bottle in the first place: It is because the plutocrats that pushed this never laid it bare to the public "Hey, we're going to lower your wages but it will be offset by lower prices....trust us", they just threw production workers under the bus piecemeal, all while claiming the negatives were illusory or of little consequence. Fast forward: Well now that the US industrial base is sufficiently eroded beyond timely reinstatement and the plutocrat's bottom lines have been fattened, they no longer feel the need to say "trust me/us". Now it's just "go fuck yourself"....It's pretty much the Romney/Ryan message to anybody but the upper middle class and higher. That they've made quite clear.