Rapid growth of Temu and Shein threatens US businesses and consumers, Biden says.
    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Neither the US nor China are truly free markets. They both play with taxes, tariffs, and subsidies to affect commerce both international and domestic.

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I love this libertarian obsession with “true free markets” as if there has ever been or ever will be a market with no nation-states or major conglomerates putting their fingers on the scale for their own self interests. What a world it must be to live in where one is so high on idealism that they somehow miss how incredibly fucking worthless even considering such a thing is when a child could point out that would never occur.

  • Fester@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I thought maybe this would be about the cheap disposable products and massive amount of waste these companies produce, but nope - it’s just the wrong pollution.

    We need to create massive amounts of cheap disposable American products and send massive amounts of American waste to our landfills.