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Comment by vkou

17 days ago

Unemployment is at 4%, there's no reserve army of labor that can be mobilized to make flashlights and sew t-shirts for $3/hr.

Anyways, I hope you're looking foward to prices for everything going up.

Could be a thing? Perhaps people might start caring about product durability and stop buying cheap shit that goes in a landfill because the producers only care about shelf appeal.

  • This is my hope, too. But also I fear the transition is going to be ugly. Personally I feel lucky that I’m not just starting out my life — I already have high quality stuff.

But then we can promote immigration from poorer neighbouring countries to pick up the work. Oh wait...