Comment on U.S. is cracking down on Shein and Temu by closing a loophole that makes their cheap goods exempt from tariffs

chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can’t freely compete with near slave labor conditions and zero environmental regulations. . .

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  • Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No but it does show how much capitalism relies on the absolute exploitation of the labor market and the double-standards from the US in that regard. Free market good but only when US companies are the ones fucking everyone over.

    • US companies buying cheap stuff from China and marking it up 500%: good, American values
    • China cuts the middleman and sells the same product for the same price they would sell it to the reseller: noooooo we can’t compete with that, China bad, it’s so unfair! Waaaaaaa

    At least the EU doesn’t constantly brag about muh freedom and how the free market is the best thing ever and you’re a commie if you don’t agree that capitalism is the best.

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  • chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    1000025720

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah pretty damning for how bad China is if that’s considered better.

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      • Crewman@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        A little older article regarding Foxconn, but should still be relevant.

        Not that it helps that Apple and others are enablers of these practices.

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    arkansas’ use of prison labor seems like it’s trying to compete on the near slave labor front

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  • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Didn’t workers make that exact argument when their good manufacturing jobs were being sent to poorer nations? Seems hypocritical that the government allows globalism to hurt the working class as long as it benefits the rich, but suddenly globalism is bad when it hurts the profit margins of our billionaires.

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• tardigrada@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Whatever we understand by a ‘free market’, China must really not complain about a ‘non-free’ market policy not in the U.S. nor in most othrr countries. That would really be hypocritical.

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