Well as long as investors believe things will go back to “normal”, then I see your point. But normal is a nightmare of global sharecropping and colonialism. That’s the silver lining to the fickleness: the more unreliable global trade relationships are, the more desirable local sustainability becomes, because it’s not subject to the whims of a madman president.
a.k.a. the only way to make a profit manufacturing those goods is by mass exploitation, displacement and ecocide. Well I guess if that’s what it takes then we have no other option, eh? Better bring down those trade barriers and make with the Progress!
Yes, I’m sure there are valid complaints about tariff policies regarding electronics components. And I’m sure they’re getting way, way more attention than they’d normally warrant because of the political context surrounding them. That’s weird but fine, I guess. The thing I object to is the sweeping ideological acceptance of tariff-free trade as an obvious good, especially considering the history of merciless US exploitation of Mexico through anti-tariff trade policy.
There is more wrong here than just Trump. And once the Fool is no longer in the Oval Office and trade relations “normalize”, the problems will remain.
