XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2024-10-22 8:45 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:19:57 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2024-10-22 7:57 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:36:08 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 2024-10-22 4:47 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 08:32:13 -0400, bad sector wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> It's time for HW manufacturing (all development AND actual   
   >>>>>> production) to return to the USA/CXanada and Europe.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It went away in the first place because it could not be done cost-   
   >>>>> effectively in those “first-world” countries -- basic free-market   
   >>>>> capitalism in action.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> To bring it back would require Government subsidies, or forcing   
   >>>>> customers to pay more. Which would you prefer?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Considering the largest market for those products is the West,   
   >>>> particularly the United States, it would be possible to bring back   
   >>>> manufacturing by blocking sales of products that don't have a presence   
   >>>> in North America.   
   >>>   
   >>> Easy way around that: set up an empty office like those in East Texas   
   >>> to get jurisdiction under the patent-friendly courts there. There’s   
   >>> your “presence”. Business continues from overseas as usual.   
   >>>   
   >>> What’s your next move?   
   >>   
   >> A manufacturing presence. The company would have to produce whatever it   
   >> sells on the continent it is selling to.   
   >   
   > How much of it? Disassembled parts? Or all the way back to raw ore?   
      
   This statement demonstrates how much progressives care about the people   
   being enslaved in foreign countries to produce the goods we Westerners   
   purchase at low prices. They have a huge heart until you tell them that   
   their cell phone might cost $50 more because 'Bile in Africa is suddenly   
   getting a living wage.   
      
   --   
   CrudeSausage   
   Paleoconservative, Catholic, Christ is king.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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