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by OfSanguineFire
1033 days ago
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I said supermarkets. Chains like DM and Rossmann are already a step up in price and quality beyond where struggling people do their shopping. A toothbrush from such a shop (whether made locally or in China) is usually going to be more expensive than a toothbrush from a supermarket (which is likely made in China). Disruption to trade with China would affect prices in proletarian supermarkets in the short-term, which would be a huge problem when millions of Europeans (and their counterparts in other Western countries) are already complaining of inflation. You write of having been able to buy European electronics at competitive prices, but that was long ago and Europe has already lost the whole production landscape that enabled such quality at competitive prices. |
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The struggling people who are struggling because their working class jobs were offshored and instead must find consolation in being able to only afford dirt cheap Chinese-made stuff? The irony is not lost on me.
Plus, most of peoples' biggest current expenses are education, housing and healthcare, not that a toothbrush costs $1.99 and not $0.99.
>Disruption to trade with China would affect prices in proletarian supermarkets in the short-term
"Oh look, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions".
Sure, now a trade disruption would suck, but my point was that we could have kept developing industrial capacity and jobs in the west and it wouldn't be this way if we haven't offshored so much manufacturing to China so quickly in the first place, chasing short term profits at the expense of everything else, especially since none of those profits went to the working class who's jobs were gone.
Other cheap stuff in the supermarket, like bananas, is basically tied to slave labor in those countries, but I can live without cheap bananas and not support slave labor.