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[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago

Or machine learning. Pick your poison.

Or be like Chomsky and despise both while you secretly create papers on those areas.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

No, they are too late for that.

They could if Trump picked another other to implement his policies.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

As our "earnings to price" graph confirms, the market has notice our progress on the "employee to revenue" and "investment over returns" KPIs...

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

He's just a simple tailor, it's not like he took part on the war.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If the US manages to reduce their imports, what will probably happen is that the rest of the world will cut the more optional consumption from there so that they can keep buying the food. What means that US industry will suffer.

But your first feeling that sellers and buyers will redistribute who they deal with is probably correct too. Anyway, the tariffs shouldn't have an immediate effect of changing how much food moves around, but nobody knows what domino pieces they will hit on the fall.

On the very short term, China is tariffing stuff that hurts. What means they are serious about not buying from the US and will pay extra for the privilege. And yes, also means somebody else will probably take their place.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yes, but the other countries that buy from elsewhere will want their normal amounts too.

Can other food producers increase their production while the US spirals down? Nobody really knows, we are in shock due to both global warming and the war in Ukraine. And the US is a really major food exporter.

Can people make do with less food? Probably, but it's not trivial.

Anyway, China's tariffs are completely self-imposed. They can cut them at any time.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 32 points 4 months ago

Yes, as you said, they aren't a new concept. We have plenty of evidence, of countries that tried that again and again. We know what he is doing is stupid.

Besides, your theory on tariffs won't even get to be tested. Kidnapping people at random on the street and sending them to concentration camps has an overwhelmingly larger impact on the economy than the tariffs. People from outside of the US will only focus at this if you start to invade other countries, but at this point, nobody inside the US should be concerned with tariffs, at all.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The problem is that China can live very easily without American goods

A lot of it is food. They probably can, but it will not be not easy at all.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 63 points 4 months ago

What you mean? People on the 20s were clearly traumatized by a recent pandemic, pushing for worldwide economic protectionism and isolationism, revolting against and dehumanizing people that practiced "sexual dissidence"...

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Ok, but maybe start with Economics...

Or maybe start with "socializing and behaving is a society" like half the focus of per-alfabetization classes (the other half being how to use the bathroom).

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The mosquito thing is known to be false, and people only ever talk about extinguishing half a dozen species of them at most, that are invasive on most parts.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hum... Have you missed the entire OP's joke?

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