• FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    No matter how you slice it, it simply ends in America’s living with a “lowered” quality of life. The reason we buy things from overseas is because it was cheaper and nobody wanted to pay for the expensive American version. Even the current high-end American products we have will find themselves struggling when people have to pick and choose what they can afford going forward.

    I’m also a little indifferent about the whole thing. I just think its going to be hilarious if it goes down and people end up struggling even more after voting Trump. I’ll have my schadenfreude-popcorn ready constantly to munch on over the next four years.

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      3 hours ago

      Lowering your quality of life when that wealth is stolen, built on the backs of oppressed people, or causing climate change is both necessary and just

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        I feel you, but also, they’ll have less money too. Some of them will lose jobs and go hungry in the interim, and I’m not going to try to argue where the “appropriate” starvation balance is. But it -will- happen.