Re:Uber says it's leaving Quebec if province insists on stri...
by ChemicalWarfare on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:21PM
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>> Sugar is 3x as expensive in the US as it is in latin america. Why? We have restrictions on imports, and thus we have to have american companies growing sugar.
not sure this example applies to China blocking FB for example. they are 1 - creating job opportunities for their devs and 2 - taking the piece of the pie straight from FB and putting it into their pockets. (+ probably whatever data they want to collect on their citizens instead of FB doing that).
some protectionism is "good". the problem I have with it is it skews the playing field unless all players do the same thing.
not sure this example applies to China blocking FB for example. they are 1 - creating job opportunities for their devs and 2 - taking the piece of the pie straight from FB and putting it into their pockets. (+ probably whatever data they want to collect on their citizens instead of FB doing that).
some protectionism is "good". the problem I have with it is it skews the playing field unless all players do the same thing.