it’s like you believe you can tariff them expecting they won’t do the same. Why do you believe the rest of the world is not going to retaliate and why do you believe America can prosper without the rest of the world?

What’s the point of having a military alliance with countries you puts tariffs on? That’s unfriendly to say the least.

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    cheap indentured labor from Taiwan

    The extremely well-paid and literally best-on-the-planet chip manufacturers? The highly skilled engineers with years of education and expertise, who continuously outpace the achievements of much larger companies and nations? The ones who work in a narrow field that doesn’t actually matter for jobs reports, because they’re such a small group of experts and the real gain in jobs for the economy would be the labor involved in building the fabs for them?

    Calling them “cheap indentured labor” is just casual xenophobia.

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      Sounds like you have no clue about the abuse endured by H1B recipients in this country.

      Or you’re just another bad actor trying to adopt the language of the oppressed to defend their exploitation.

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        H1B recipients are horribly abused, true. But that’s because they’re used the way capitalism uses everyone it considers replaceable - grind them down and move onto the next. Doesn’t apply to - again - the literally best-on-the-planet engineers. They’re not coding for Xitter, they can walk at any time and find employment and visas elsewhere.

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          “…they can walk at any time…”

          No, they often can’t. That’s one of the worst abuses imposed upon them.