• comi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I’m too afraid to look if that sub is real tbh.

      But fr usa can obviously produce enough food and concrete for itself, but can it produce enough clothes, other building materials, steel, nickel, cobalt with factories as they currently are?

        • comi [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I’ll have to refresh my memory on the import/export balances info and employment figures, maybe I was mistaken, but it was quite obscene disbalance without service exports

          • Prinz1989 [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            The means of production can be easily (re)placed in the US, or Europa and since a revolution would cancel all the bullshit jobs there would be plenty of manpower for them. Also stuff like textil or chemical industries can almost be fully automated today. It is perfectly possible. Germany is a country that still exports a lot of high value consumer goods and machinery and otherwise it's a perfectly simple western country.

            • comi [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Textile as in bulk commodity of course, us produces a shitton of cotton, but I’m talking specifically clothes/shoes, shit like that, that have not been automated, labor intensive stuff.