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>But the conversation has been frustratingly reduced to 'reshore low skill work' vs 'save my infinite trough of cheap plastic slop'
The conversation has been reduced to that because this administration's tariffs are and have always been indiscriminate.
You bring up an interesting issue, but people aren't discussing it because it's orthogonal to what is currently happening.
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>But the conversation has been frustratingly reduced to 'reshore low skill work' vs 'save my infinite trough of cheap plastic slop'
The conversation has been reduced to that because this administration's tariffs are and have always been indiscriminate.
You bring up an interesting issue, but people aren't discussing it because it's orthogonal to what is currently happening.