as tim apple himself points out, not just the means of production is in china now, the knowledge of production is there as well. if they had to pay the same labor costs for chinese workers they’d still make it there supposedly.
The knowledge of production is an integral part of the means of production and they can’t be separated.
The whole post dot com era has been an experiment in doing that and it’s failed spectacularly. If only there was a book about how Capital works that explained this relationship in detail…
Another reason why the tariffs are such a blinder unless the republican party is accelerationist is this, no amount of tariffs was going to bring back industrial means now that china had already gathered most of the capital involved, had the quality to back it up, infrastructure to support it and quantity to expand it
as tim apple himself points out, not just the means of production is in china now, the knowledge of production is there as well. if they had to pay the same labor costs for chinese workers they’d still make it there supposedly.
The knowledge of production is an integral part of the means of production and they can’t be separated.
The whole post dot com era has been an experiment in doing that and it’s failed spectacularly. If only there was a book about how Capital works that explained this relationship in detail…
Another reason why the tariffs are such a blinder unless the republican party is accelerationist is this, no amount of tariffs was going to bring back industrial means now that china had already gathered most of the capital involved, had the quality to back it up, infrastructure to support it and quantity to expand it