Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation Worse

Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by nsonha on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @04:46AM (#27589384)

I dont think this is the only perspective. Without those outsourced industries, the economies of those countries might be worse off and people might have better air and water but face poverty, umemployment and other crises. It'll be better for the West to bring back jobs no doubt.

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Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by beardedetim on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:58AM (#27589764)

Could we say the same about Africans in the slave trade? I’m not sure because I don’t know history but I would hazard a guess that one could.

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Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by nsonha on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @06:06AM (#27589809)

I'm not talking about slave trade

Countries that have a significant outsourcing footprint, do you think they do it because they're foolish/greedy? if it is so bad for them? There is a pressure especially in overpopulated nations to create jobs and the local economy is not mature enough to create enough jobs nor value to pay well.

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Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:58AM (#27591034)

Or they do it because local officials are bribed or powerless

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Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by nsonha on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:21AM (#27591246)

or both, why do things have to be either black or white?

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Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:42AM (#27592272)

If you ever lived in Russia, you'd realise that its entirely resolved by bribes, not national interest

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Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by sean_the_geek on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:44AM (#27589676)

I don’t understand the downvotes to your comment. It is a valid alternative perspective.

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Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by rocknor on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @12:23PM (#27593660)

The downvotes show how little the HN audience knows about economics and geopolitics, making dumbass statements like

> Modern life is pretty damn great but let's not kid ourselves that it's basically theft from the poor and the young.

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Re:Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation ... by nsonha on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:02PM (#27599457)

The funny thing is most people having this view have not lived in a developing country. Yet they feel that they know what's best for us.

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