The government will take trillions from the American populous, then when all manufacturing comes back to the US, tariff revenue will drop to zero. But Americans will still pay the higher prices to the corporations.
It actually does sound genius if you don’t value humanity or nations. If you’re trying to build something different this does sound like some interesting staging of some new society. I think it’s insane but it sure does look intentional in all regards.
What kind of idiocy is this? It's the ideology of nation states and arbitrary lines on a map that's at the very heart of this crap.
A child born in Lithuania today can grow up to be an American and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Nations are exploitative bullshit. They have zero value except to those at the top. QED
A nation or state is an can be much different than just the pessimistic views but I do agree with you to some degree.
Nations are how we have organized our societies and taxes to support our laws and civilization. It’s complicated and probably could be done butter but I wouldn’t leave it to the leadership shaping this world now to do a reasonable job finding and moving to a better model.
yeah Jingoism is one of the most baffling and frustrating reminders of tribal egoism overruling common sense in the modern world.
Post ww2 and now especially post digital age, there is simply no goddamn reason whatsoever for resource wars and direct national control of certain land areas. In an age of ubiquitous real time global communication and modern distribution speeds, The entire justification for "protection" of one's "own population" via military aggression is basically "he was gonna do it first!" ... now, look... fine that's probably SOMETIMES true because our base instincts are pretty greedy and selfish. But it's pretty blatant that virtually all remaining conflict (including the growing belligerence of the U.S.) is actually driven entirely by ideology and individual ego.
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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 1d ago
The government will take trillions from the American populous, then when all manufacturing comes back to the US, tariff revenue will drop to zero. But Americans will still pay the higher prices to the corporations.