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reswright
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Sep 5, 2019
What I've heard and read is that there are new restrictions on importing knives and the long and short of it is that things that used to be able to fly over now have to float over. It's going to have an impact on the people importing knives from China, which means it's going to impact people like me who buy those knives. How much? Not as much as a tariff but it's obviously going to make things take longer and possibly make them cost more as well, outside of whatever impact tariffs have. Personally? I'm fine with it. So things take longer to get. That sucks if you aren't in a position to wait for things for whatever reason, but I don't mind it so much. Gives me something to anticipate, waiting. It need not be a terrible thing depending on how you go about it and what it is you need. I mean, we're buying knives, not insulin. To the degree that this and other policies encourages the people who sell to Americans to buy more of their stuff from American sources, maybe move some production back to the states? I'm down with that! I'll just believe it when I see it really happening, because these people are extraordinarily talented at hanging on to money instead of reinvesting it in American communities, and they loathe being forced to do anything by the common person. They'll drag it out as long as possibly can, and we've barely started with tariffs and trade restrictions. They will say they just can't afford to move production to the States, and what they mean is, they can't profit from it quite as much as they like. They can afford it and they can even profit from it, but these folks have it in their head that they deserve whatever margin they can claw out of the market by hook or by crook. If they can only make 80% of that, they walk from the deal. Because they can afford to wait everyone out. Because fuck you, that's why. It is ruthless and cruel and it's how the very rich have done their business since capitalism was first a thing, and probably long before. But the ruling class used to have SOME class, and now they don't. Somewhere along the way we stopped holding our economic leaders to a higher standard, and then we sat down to watch reality TV and stopped holding the powers to be to any moral or ethical standard at all. By the time we started looking back up, our jobs were gone and so was our money and by and large our sense of decency as well. If the people who own American production capabilities want to suddenly rediscover their sense of shared humanity for their neighbors, and start building things with American labor again, I'll be on board. All, or at least most, sins forgiven. That's why I like seeing the Drop collabs being sourced in the US recently even though it's, well, a drop in the bucket - don't know if that's the luck of the draw, or Drop responding to changes in the global markets, momentary or accidental or a planned switch, or what, but either way I know it's good for people who need a break, and that I'd like to see more of it.
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