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On 10/26/24 16:41, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 08:47:01 -0400, bad sector wrote:

The responsibility for protecting its own falls on sovereign governments
so when oriental cheap-labour combined with subsidies allowed them to
undercut then western governments should have countered not by
subsidising (you cannot cut out a hole) but by completely interdicting
those imports.

That’s how things used to be done in the bad old days, when most of the “consumer” goods we take for granted were rare and expensive luxuries that
could be afforded only by the rich. That is, where they existed at all.

Do you really want to go back to those days?

Probably, people were DIY qualified then. Nowadays you go into a
'specialized' computer store and ask for some info all you get is an
insulted look and "do I look like Goggle to you?". I rebuilt my first
car in my late teens with next to no tools, today youth say "the ashtray
is full, how much a month for a gaming bluetooth display with four
wheels?", they need a smartphone to know how to shit. Globalization?
Give them a little poverty instead (very likely to come anyway).

"On September 20, 1917, the Income War Tax Act, 1917 received Royal
Assent and, in one form or another, has been with us ever since. Since
it was meant as a temporary measure, it was to be reviewed a year or two
after the end of the war to assess whether it was still necessary and suitable." NB 'temporary'.


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