You know, it's funny. When I was in 10th grade taking Civics and just learning about things like world trade for the first time, my genius idea to solve America's economic issues was to jack tarrifs up on everything not made in the States. Surely, I reasoned, this would discourage shipping jobs overseas and bring manufacturing back to the States, resulting in more jobs and lower prices.
@coriander oh when i was in 10th grade i thought the solution was the elimination of the dollar in favour of a state-planned economy where labour was directly traded for goods and services
but called something different than communism, because that’s bad
@Lady I went to Christian school you gotta remember, I didn't learn about central planning until later
@coriander see it was me and this mormon kid, and we were like “well obviously people starving is bad, so we need to find a way to get people food when they don’t have money, so maybe the food should just be free” and it kind of escalated from there
@coriander i’m not saying we had GOOD ideas but we at least identified the PROBLEM
@coriander every thirty minutes we would be like “but not like communism! because that didn’t work!” and then go on to describe something else which was just like communism
@coriander anyway i think everyone has a phase where they are like “maybe international markets are kind of bad and we should discourage those”, for one reason or another
and they’re not even necessarily wrong! but Not Like This
