Mia Wong

And that was happening anyways before the tariffs because of sort of rising labor costs in China and, you know, a whole bunch of sort of factors like that. But none of that shit, none of that stuff that like to sort of like keep the current global economy on a lifeline is going to be able to function once the tariffs on basically every country on earth go into effect.

And that was happening anyways before the tariffs because of sort of rising labor costs in China and, you know, a whole bunch of sort of factors like that. But none of that shit, none of that stuff that like to sort of like keep the current global economy on a lifeline is going to be able to function once the tariffs on basically every country on earth go into effect.

And there's a second problem here, which is that, okay, so what is the new economy going to look like? These people, the people running the administration, people like Navarro and people like Trump and a lot of the right who is driving the policy thing here think that the production that's happening everywhere else in the world will just be replaced by the U.S.,

And there's a second problem here, which is that, okay, so what is the new economy going to look like? These people, the people running the administration, people like Navarro and people like Trump and a lot of the right who is driving the policy thing here think that the production that's happening everywhere else in the world will just be replaced by the U.S.,

And there's a second problem here, which is that, okay, so what is the new economy going to look like? These people, the people running the administration, people like Navarro and people like Trump and a lot of the right who is driving the policy thing here think that the production that's happening everywhere else in the world will just be replaced by the U.S.,

And there was a trap that people fall into with Chinese economics. And I do this too sometimes because it's, you know, it's a fast and easy way to think about the Chinese economy. And it's not accurate. Well, it's not like, it doesn't capture the full picture of what's going on.

And there was a trap that people fall into with Chinese economics. And I do this too sometimes because it's, you know, it's a fast and easy way to think about the Chinese economy. And it's not accurate. Well, it's not like, it doesn't capture the full picture of what's going on.

And there was a trap that people fall into with Chinese economics. And I do this too sometimes because it's, you know, it's a fast and easy way to think about the Chinese economy. And it's not accurate. Well, it's not like, it doesn't capture the full picture of what's going on.

But the way that people think about the Chinese economy tends to be that the reason that things are made in China is because labor is cheap there. Because either, because of the culmination of exploitation and poverty. And that's true to an extent, right? But the actual sort of genius from capital's perspective of capital's return to China was that

But the way that people think about the Chinese economy tends to be that the reason that things are made in China is because labor is cheap there. Because either, because of the culmination of exploitation and poverty. And that's true to an extent, right? But the actual sort of genius from capital's perspective of capital's return to China was that

But the way that people think about the Chinese economy tends to be that the reason that things are made in China is because labor is cheap there. Because either, because of the culmination of exploitation and poverty. And that's true to an extent, right? But the actual sort of genius from capital's perspective of capital's return to China was that

You know, from a capitalist perspective, the Chinese workforce, and this continues to be true 30 or 40 years into the transition, is highly educated and highly skilled. And the education was paid for not by capitalism, right? It was paid for by the sort of socialist system.

You know, from a capitalist perspective, the Chinese workforce, and this continues to be true 30 or 40 years into the transition, is highly educated and highly skilled. And the education was paid for not by capitalism, right? It was paid for by the sort of socialist system.

You know, from a capitalist perspective, the Chinese workforce, and this continues to be true 30 or 40 years into the transition, is highly educated and highly skilled. And the education was paid for not by capitalism, right? It was paid for by the sort of socialist system.

Like, this combination of things, of a highly educated and an increasingly highly skilled as they've been, you know, working these jobs, means that there is an extremely high-skill migrant labor population, right? That knows how to do a bunch of shit like circuit board assembly and like stuff with like chip assembly, right? That is vital to making electronics. And the U.S.

Like, this combination of things, of a highly educated and an increasingly highly skilled as they've been, you know, working these jobs, means that there is an extremely high-skill migrant labor population, right? That knows how to do a bunch of shit like circuit board assembly and like stuff with like chip assembly, right? That is vital to making electronics. And the U.S.

Like, this combination of things, of a highly educated and an increasingly highly skilled as they've been, you know, working these jobs, means that there is an extremely high-skill migrant labor population, right? That knows how to do a bunch of shit like circuit board assembly and like stuff with like chip assembly, right? That is vital to making electronics. And the U.S.

does not have a couple of hundred thousand migrant workers that you can just have and like exploit and not pay healthcare costs to. You know how all of the chip manufacturing shit works, right? There are people in the U.S. who know how to do some of these kinds of things. But we're talking, you know, even though the U.S.

does not have a couple of hundred thousand migrant workers that you can just have and like exploit and not pay healthcare costs to. You know how all of the chip manufacturing shit works, right? There are people in the U.S. who know how to do some of these kinds of things. But we're talking, you know, even though the U.S.

does not have a couple of hundred thousand migrant workers that you can just have and like exploit and not pay healthcare costs to. You know how all of the chip manufacturing shit works, right? There are people in the U.S. who know how to do some of these kinds of things. But we're talking, you know, even though the U.S.