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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 08:47:01 -0400, bad sector wrote:   
      
   > The responsibility for protecting its own falls on sovereign governments   
   > so when oriental cheap-labour combined with subsidies allowed them to   
   > undercut then western governments should have countered not by   
   > subsidising (you cannot cut out a hole) but by completely interdicting   
   > those imports.   
      
   That’s how things used to be done in the bad old days, when most of the   
   “consumer” goods we take for granted were rare and expensive luxuries that   
   could be afforded only by the rich. That is, where they existed at all.   
      
   Do you really want to go back to those days?   
      
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