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I had a similar conversation with Don when he was writing the module for 1e, prior in CT it was simply the war of the Ego vs the Id (like in The Forbidden Planet); and that the Zhodani saw the Imperium as a cancer: ravenous and uncontrolled. They slowly build forces, and when enough, attack...

Banned in restaurants here, bars/pubs/taverns it goes by establishment, others they will have it banned inside, but out back is beer garden where it is not. The guy was driving a pretty nice new BMW, he was probably management.

We still have the biggest steel mill a hour north: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Works The Japanese keep trying to buy it. I was at a tavern here (pub) playing darts with an English guy, works at Tate & Lyle another British factory, we sat down and had another pint, the bartender brought...

Rust belt is just nice way of saying midwest, a different region say than the west coast or south. Still a lot of industry here, while back a long time ago they made the Wabash Cannonball here, our university team is still the Boilermakers, those factories have gone and been replaced by others...

It's a free market in a slave state, running on greed and corruption. No law except the will of the autocrat, violence as the final authority. Keep your bribery, forgery, and streetwise skills sharp.

As one can tell from my posts here, I prefer positive statements, normative, beliefs, are weak. My econ prof criticized my papers for looking like engineering docs, something also said about my books. Being on the production side in business, hard data is key, my ideal cold steel perfection.

One has to distinguish between positive, and normative statements. Economists engage in two distinct, but related activities. They conduct research on economic issues, e.g. to determine cause and effect. For example, why did unemployment increase rapidly in 2008 and 2009? Economists also make...

I'm just staying focused on tariffs, or at least trying to, and not get sidetracked.

Now you are saying the same thing I said, companies survive or fail due to their management and the decisions they make. All this discussion is circular. Bringing it back to point zero, tariffs aren't going to solve that problem.

Why make it personal? All the statements I have made I have backed up with actual sources. As far as giving a big lecture on economics, I don't think anyone wants that, I certainly don't want to give it. Nor do I think I am capable of it. Plus arguing beliefs is pretty futile. Often the thing...

Okay ... lol

So labor is just another cost.

You don't know, because they didn't survive. Too much of that is all fantasy though.

They could not, that is the mountain. Plenty of actual hard data, if someone can't accept that, not my problem. There is no equal to knowledge, it takes work.

It is comparative advantage, labor costs are sort of fixed for one reason or another (edit: such as moving to a cheaper labor market, has to be weighed against transportation costs, setting up a new facility, etc..). Even with one labor market, companies succeed or fail. We have a lot of...