[ SECRET POST #2069 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2069 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The City of Dreaming Books]


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Notes:

Important: I'm really sorry about this, but I accidentally clicked the wrong thing and deleted the submission post from last week instead of saving it. Managed to save the first page (25) of secrets, but the rest (a bit over 100) are gone.

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Comments

Re: Curious question: Economics… and Politics.

[augustbird]

disclaimer: i don't have any formal training in these subjects

1. if the us can offer more incentives (tax breaks, etc) to keep jobs domestic, it might be possible to shift some jobs back to the us. this might not affect menial labor like manufacturing (minimum wage is far above the amount that chinese workers get paid and giant corporations are unlikely to start investing in american factories to produce cheap goods) but when it comes to outsourcing jobs in things like computer tech or engineering, you might see an increased effort to hire locally. also "job problem" is a pretty broad brush--i don't think it's just a lack of job openings; maybe it also entails a geographic mismatch between talent and position, etc. america really enjoys its capitalism which is why the economics (hell, even the politics) here probably seem business-centric. but policies can be changed and the government can take a bigger or smaller role in regulating trade as the time sees fit. neither the problem nor the solution are simple.

2. i'm afraid i haven't taken a close look at either of the platforms for this election but viewpoints on economics generally take a domestic tone (like tax cuts, etc)? so in that sense, no not really. but depending on whether or not the domestic policies are successful in garnering growth vs. recession, the federal budget can change. the us gives a pretty significant amount of aid to third world countries and i'm pretty sure also loans money to other countries. but looking beyond the direct policies of the government, in today's day and age it might be more prudent to consider the policies of multinational corporations. if any of them are based in the us--which a lot of them are--you might see domestic policies taking effect overseas via changes in company tactics.

wow long post is long.

Re: Curious question: Economics… and Politics.

[veronica_rich]

I like your first remark about incentivizing (I would add, punishing, in the opposite way) jobs to stay in/return to the US. As for paying more expensive domestic labor for manufacturing, read my comment below. But credits for keeping/returning/creating more jobs here should be better.

On a personal note OP, I am really sick of this "job creators" bullshit one party is trying to substitute as code for "wealthy people." If you want to be called a job creator, you ought to be forced to show a net-positive creation of jobs year over year, of a certain number or percentage, or in some cases, at least a maintenance of a certain number of existing jobs. Hoarding a pile like Scrooge McDuck does not make you a job creator.