They haven’t used child labor in years. But it seems like Florida is rolling back child labor law to work in iPhone assembly work putting in tiny screws. The Republicans must had the inside knowledge to use those tiny hands for tiny screws.
Not specifically. It’s just a broad tariff on Chinese imports. Even still, his tariffs will do nothing to benefit those workers and is only harming us. It also negatively affects other countries that trade with the U.S because the U.S imports raw materials from China to produce goods we sell.
Perhaps, but fortunately Republicans are working to fix that issue:
> Florida child labor rollback bill amended to allow some 13-year-olds to work
The non-snarky answer is that if someone wants to encourage better labor protections in China (which, let’s be serious, no conservative cares about), across-the-board tariffs on China – and the rest of the world – are not an effective way to do it.
Do you mean to say Florida? 14 year olds can work a 40 hour week there. Or read this article about children working in slaughter houses. https://www.epi.org/publication/child-labor-laws-under-attack/
You can’t claim the high ground if there isn’t any.
Do you recognize that for the last few decades conservatives have been doing everything they can to offshore American manufacturing.
They did this because countries like China don’t have regulations against child labor or minimum wage laws. This, corporations could pad their profits off the backs off children, so ceos can have extravagant salaries. They got exactly what they wanted.
The fact is that Republicans created this system, and now they’re pissed about and say, once again, that they are going to fix a problem that they caused.
If Republicans really cared about manufacturing, they wouldn’t be trying to dismantle the CHIPS Act, which is bringing high tech manufacturing to America.
The Republicans don’t care about manufacturing; their whole playbook is “own the libs.”
Yeah but that’s not why he is enacting them. The “American” companies he is protecting also exploit children and unprotected workers. Many of them source from the same factories in China. They just want to be the ones who can capitalize on the cheap labor and sell to us at a higher price…
You can dig around my comment history you’ll see I half agree with you. I don’t want our workers to have to compete with China’s workers (although I have zero issues with us competing with Canadians for example)
But Trump’s zero sum attitude is just so harmful and counter productive.
Recognize? Sure. Care? Debatable. My monkey sphere is only so big, and right now, I care about whether or not my parents can retire and if my grandmother’s Medicare will cover her ER stay and if I’ll have a job in 4 months because Don the Con decided to drive our economy off a literal cliff.
Offshoring labor helps the third world, because these globalist corporations exploit inequalities by offering pay and conditions that are poor compared to first world conditions, but that are still better compared to the typical conditions for domestic jobs in these countries. Get rid of those jobs and you aren’t helping the workers in those countries, you are just driving them to do even worse jobs instead. While also making things more expensive in the first world. It’s a lose lose, but at least privileged first workers get to pretend they have the moral high ground?
I have doubts that tariffs are effective at discouraging or minimizing child labor. Maybe at best it’ll put kids back to subsistence farming, but I doubt that
I think it’s laughable that this is an intentional goal of Trumps tariffs and questionable that it will be an unintended consequence. Especially as there appears to be movement within the republican to bring back child labor to the US to lessen the political blow back that high prices and limited services are likely to cause
Nowhere in his policies did he indicate this was the drive. Don’t get me wrong, I am a sustainability professional. In all technicality localized production, jobs and such are great. Especially if you can ensure good standards and pay. But our own system is being denigrated (safety oversight, child labor laws, minimum wage). We regularly see people suggesting that some jobs should not be a living wage. What happens when you want local production for the same price you had it but do not want those people to make a living wage?
COVID hit, carbon emissions went down substantially. This does not necessarily mean COVID is rad and we should have faith in it to solve our social problems.
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They haven’t used child labor in years. But it seems like Florida is rolling back child labor law to work in iPhone assembly work putting in tiny screws. The Republicans must had the inside knowledge to use those tiny hands for tiny screws.
If only Tramp was demanding them to change those policies.
Is it better to buy goods made by unprotected American children?
Not specifically. It’s just a broad tariff on Chinese imports. Even still, his tariffs will do nothing to benefit those workers and is only harming us. It also negatively affects other countries that trade with the U.S because the U.S imports raw materials from China to produce goods we sell.
Perhaps, but fortunately Republicans are working to fix that issue:
> Florida child labor rollback bill amended to allow some 13-year-olds to work
The non-snarky answer is that if someone wants to encourage better labor protections in China (which, let’s be serious, no conservative cares about), across-the-board tariffs on China – and the rest of the world – are not an effective way to do it.
Do you mean to say Florida? 14 year olds can work a 40 hour week there. Or read this article about children working in slaughter houses. https://www.epi.org/publication/child-labor-laws-under-attack/
You can’t claim the high ground if there isn’t any.
Do you recognize that for the last few decades conservatives have been doing everything they can to offshore American manufacturing.
They did this because countries like China don’t have regulations against child labor or minimum wage laws. This, corporations could pad their profits off the backs off children, so ceos can have extravagant salaries. They got exactly what they wanted.
The fact is that Republicans created this system, and now they’re pissed about and say, once again, that they are going to fix a problem that they caused.
If Republicans really cared about manufacturing, they wouldn’t be trying to dismantle the CHIPS Act, which is bringing high tech manufacturing to America.
The Republicans don’t care about manufacturing; their whole playbook is “own the libs.”
You’re a fool if you don’t think the goal is to have unprotected and child workers in the US.
Except that’s not why tarriffs have been put in place is it?
Yeah but that’s not why he is enacting them. The “American” companies he is protecting also exploit children and unprotected workers. Many of them source from the same factories in China. They just want to be the ones who can capitalize on the cheap labor and sell to us at a higher price…
You can dig around my comment history you’ll see I half agree with you. I don’t want our workers to have to compete with China’s workers (although I have zero issues with us competing with Canadians for example)
But Trump’s zero sum attitude is just so harmful and counter productive.
Recognize? Sure. Care? Debatable. My monkey sphere is only so big, and right now, I care about whether or not my parents can retire and if my grandmother’s Medicare will cover her ER stay and if I’ll have a job in 4 months because Don the Con decided to drive our economy off a literal cliff.
I’m sure Donald Trump is disappointed about that, but it’s a small price to pay to utterly destroy the US economy.
They also discourage from buying pretty much everything else
Offshoring labor helps the third world, because these globalist corporations exploit inequalities by offering pay and conditions that are poor compared to first world conditions, but that are still better compared to the typical conditions for domestic jobs in these countries. Get rid of those jobs and you aren’t helping the workers in those countries, you are just driving them to do even worse jobs instead. While also making things more expensive in the first world. It’s a lose lose, but at least privileged first workers get to pretend they have the moral high ground?
I have doubts that tariffs are effective at discouraging or minimizing child labor. Maybe at best it’ll put kids back to subsistence farming, but I doubt that
I think it’s laughable that this is an intentional goal of Trumps tariffs and questionable that it will be an unintended consequence. Especially as there appears to be movement within the republican to bring back child labor to the US to lessen the political blow back that high prices and limited services are likely to cause
A broken clock is right twice a day.
Nowhere in his policies did he indicate this was the drive. Don’t get me wrong, I am a sustainability professional. In all technicality localized production, jobs and such are great. Especially if you can ensure good standards and pay. But our own system is being denigrated (safety oversight, child labor laws, minimum wage). We regularly see people suggesting that some jobs should not be a living wage. What happens when you want local production for the same price you had it but do not want those people to make a living wage?
COVID hit, carbon emissions went down substantially. This does not necessarily mean COVID is rad and we should have faith in it to solve our social problems.
Do you recognize that they also discourage us from buying European goods made by grown adults and protected workers?
How are those Chinese workers going to feed their families?