Re: Guardian Almost Makes Sense

On Sun, 4 May 2025 14:12:04 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 5/4/2025 2:03 PM, bitrex wrote:

On 5/4/2025 1:18 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 04 May 2025 09:01:56 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
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which is shocking.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/02/american-
reindustrialization-manufacturing

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I would normally hit the 'next' button when someone links to a
Guardian article, but as you say, they're right for once with this
one. Lots of countries in the West were sold the same lie about
swapping manufacturing for services. Mrs Thatcher told the British
that the old 'smoke stack' industries would have to go abroad and be
replaced by smart services. Those peasants in the Far East, they were
told, would take over all the shitty, manual jobs whilst the British
would get cracking with the clever stuff like manufacturing silicon
chips. Problem was, the peasants in China and Taiwan didn't get the
memo. The British lost a huge amount of manufacturing alright, but the
service economy which replaced it was - for the most part - low paid
and low skill. Some economists who could see the issues with this said
at the time: "we can't as a country make a living from shining each
other's shoes" - and that's the prediction which *should* have been
listened to.

 
It wasn't the right in the US rioting at the WTO conference in Seattle
in '99.
 
The right didn't care. Stocks were up, dot com boom was in full swing,
and so long as the cops were beating down some  "hippies" it was fine,
ship all the jobs to China, we have a White House blowjob to focus on..

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Actually _maybe_ Pat Buchanan piped up about it at the time, I can't
recall.
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Sort of like JD Vance, Buchanan could write is his own books which were
often insightful in their way, but then the punchline was the usual
disappointing ultranationalist white power gobbledygook.

Vance? White power?

His wife is Indian.

(But my biscuit recipe is better than his.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F10VIJjqJIs