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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 9632741" data-attributes="member: 2205"><p>Ironically, this is exactly the problem that the tariffs are (one part of) a strategy to resolve. The economic incentives to socialize the cost to the users/consumers and privatize the profits have been a perverse incentive (in the economic sense) has gutted our ability to make anything, and generally made everything worse for the consumer, with the exception that we have access to a bunch of cheap crap from China on Amazon now. Assuming that we have a job so that we can buy it. In a broad view, that economic model had played out. The privatized profits were drying up looking for yet cheaper labor markets to produce in, and the general consumer/user is pushing back against accepting the socialized cost without anything other than crap consolation prizes as a benefit. It was going to be forced to be readjusted one way or another. A managed readjustment where the actual benefit to Americans is a key KPI is much better than a chaotic readjustment, like the collapse of the old Soviet Union. Or worse, the Roman Empire. But short term, readjustments are always a bit difficult.</p></blockquote><p></p>