• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Wouldn’t this massively increase the value of people’s collections? Trump might pick up liberal supporters because of this lol

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      We will likely see the cost of goods from China go up generally speaking because of rising labor costs in China. Additional tariffs will only be half the story for why everything will get more expensive in the next 4+ years.

            • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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              Capitalist mystics, aka libertarians, will often argue that there is no discernable basis for price. It’s just whatever a seller and purchaser agree it will be. There’s nothing else to know and no need to consider how or why prices tend towards a predictable level. Where do wages and profit come from and why some people get more than others? That’s just personal morality reflected as value. Value is absolutely not the product of work.

              They’ll still also argue that increases in minimum wage necessarily result in corresponding price increases, completely forgetting that profits even exist. They’ll also tell you that you don’t understand basic economic ideas.

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              denial of LTV is where the whole “paying somebody to dig a ditch and then fill it back in again is a refutation of Marx because there’s no value created there and yet labor was done” thing comes from, which is really a sign that these people haven’t read a single word of Marx