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John Robert's avatar

Holy crap! Matt Forney shows how tariffs and reduced immigration fostered American prosperity in the past - and how it can be done again. Gotta read this one!!!

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TheAbjectLesson's avatar

A great article and history lesson, sir. Well done.

...It's almost as if everything we've been told and taught about globalist economics being wonderful "cuz cheap consumer shit that falls apart in a few years" was not true! And look at how robust American manufacturing *was* - look at old appliances, ovens, engines, all of it. We made stuff built like tanks that lasted for generations.

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Enon's avatar

Great article. (Substack ate my comment again upon switching tabs.)

Tarriffs and immigration restriction are only first steps to revitalizing innovation, remote work must also be limited to Americans in America, but even more, the penalties against inventors and the legal and financial privileges of large organizations must be dismantled.

The patent system has always been broken, my family's company, Merrow, which invented the machine that makes the stitch that holds your pants together, was almost put out of business in the 1890s by patent litigation. It's become much worse since then. I wrote about why there are no inventors in the US: https://enonh.substack.com/p/nobody-wants-geniuses

Hiring primarily by intelligence could increase US productivity by $3T/yr., I estimate there.

The damage of the fat HR ladies goes far beyond just hiring infinite Indians, nearly everyone much smarter than them is locked out of appropriate employment. After a while, smart guys just won't subject themselves to the humiliation of having their applications judged by those loathsome sows.

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Contarini's avatar

One good articulation of the argument in this article is the American economic history textbook written by Jonathan RT Hughes. He demonstrates that the fundamental fact of American economic history is relative shortage of labor, which compelled capital two flow into technological innovation, raising labor, productivity area, you can get used copies of his textbook for small sums of money online. It’s a thrilling story, really.it’s an eye-opener if you were raised on the orthodoxy.

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Viddao's avatar

Free trade fags have made up textbook theories to support their position, while tariff advocates have history on their side.

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FBoyJ's avatar

Mass immigration please!

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Rainbow Roxy's avatar

This is a lot to consider. How do we ensure human rights and individual potential are valud, alongside these economic analyses?

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TribalismDestroysLife&Security's avatar

You've received a reply that negates at least a part of this post. Here

https://substack.com/@devlin/note/c-181710754

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Clay's avatar

Not only does the flow of cheap labour need to be cut off, the cheap labour that has arrived needs to be returned whenceforth it came.

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