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"Global supply chains aren't just wasteful and unnecessary, they're also weird and totally unaccountable.
This is why you can't get rid of sweatshops, child labor or slave labor under our current system."
sird83
You can obvisouly find a country in South America where you can package those pears without having to ship them to south east asia
IntentiomalTypo
But isn't it more like... /a/18kd512
sird83
Also, Those companies, mainly Dole Chiquita and Fiffes do have huge farms all around the globe to supply western countries 1/2
sird83
Nevertheless it is wasteful and unnnecessary 2/2
KareemAbdulJabroni
I’m sure there’s nothing else on the ships that transport those pears to and from. You’re over simplifying a supply chain efficiency issue.
Steemf
You mean coke?
KareemAbdulJabroni
Found the other guy family with intercontinental trade.
canigifinpaint
Willing to pay $10 for those pears? or $10,000 for an iphone? or $40 for a gallon of gas? If yes then we can make everything in USA
AccountCreatedToUpvoteDogs
How about still paying $900 for an iPhone, but Apple not having a market cap of over one trillion. A solid middle class is better 1/
AccountCreatedToUpvoteDogs
for the economy than wealth hoarders and corporations. It's just not as good for those 1%ers.
EzraFell
I believe the root of the problem is more how much the executives and shareholders of the company make.
canigifinpaint
CEOs of big companies tend to be paid in shares, which means they only really care about the share price. So more units sold (more cheaply)
Quomp
Especially in alignment with climate denial, unaccounted pollution, and the lack of suitable employment.
canigifinpaint
Oh for sure, but do you think they're willing to pour their salaries into local manufacturing? It's just comparative advantage.
EzraFell
No, because there's an insidious philosophy of selfishness that's become more prevalent in the last 50 years that needs to be stamped out.
canigifinpaint
I hear ya, so when do we get the guillotines out?
EzraFell
We don't. We aren't barbarians. I think we need to start with mandatory government service for two years from age 19-21.
Quomp
Or, hear me out; we start domestic manufacturing where capitalists have been outsourcing to sweatshops during unemployment highs.
Quomp
How about we build something without bullshit excuses that lead to corporate profits?
canigifinpaint
We HAD domestic manufacturing, post WW2 when every other country was bombed out to high hell. Other places caught up to us, then passed us.
EverNotRelevant
Partly because of NIMBYism, mostly because corporations could get away with paying foreign workers less.
canigifinpaint
Gratz you just described comparative advantage. Would you like the US to more resemble China so we can have those jobs back?