| >beyond where struggling people do their shopping 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. |
If you think that, you are looking at things from an elite perspective. You might want to look at any national subreddit in the last couple of years and read some threads about inflation and how people are feeling the squeeze and having to deny themselves all kinds of ordinary things. As I said, this is not just toothbrushes, that was a mere example, it is almost every non-food product a person would have to buy.