XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2024-10-23 11:25 p.m., Jasen Betts wrote:   
   > On 2024-10-23, CrudeSausage  wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Indeed, it shows that progressives consider policy while conservatives   
   > are only interested in rhetoric.   
      
   Complete bullshit.   
      
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