UPS is firing 20,000 drivers and shuttering depots because of the collapsing sales through Amazon.
It’s crazy how people don’t seem to understand how their reactionary actions have ripple effects. In this case I’m talking about all those MAGA voters who firstly, didn’t know what tariffs do, secondly they thought they were sticking it to the libs and thirdly they thought they were hitting China.
In the imagination of MAGA thé Liberal is some kind of wealthy elite who they seem to think will be the one to suffer the consequences of thé tarrifs. Forgetting that if the Liberal is the wealthy elite, then by their own argument, they, thé MAGA voter is thé economic destitute. By virtue of being the economic destitute if the wealthy liberal will feel the tariffs thé economic destitute more so.
MAGA also seemed to forget that their economic destitution is what also forces them ultimately to shop at retailers where product is MADE IN CHINA. That the reason the West can provide cheap merchandise is because of a dependence we have created with CHINA. It reminds me of the convoy of yokels that put Ottawa under siege. They whined about Trudeau being too close to China, meanwhile thé idiots shop at Amazon, Walmart, and other venues where product is directly linked to China. And it’s for those cheap prices that Trudeau kept a relationship with China and so will any Prime Minister for the foreseeable future regardless of political colour. And these same imbeciles will balk at the notion of higher wages for the worker. Watch how these morons gets when you say à person working at McDonald’s should earn a dignified, living wage. Then they wonder why everything is being offshored to the Global South.
What’s more these tariffs will make superfluous spending -which Amazon relies on- less justifiable amid a depression and recession. So less product moves from Amazon’s shelves, less personnel required to work those warehouses, less deliveries, less need for workers. And this stuff spills. Because less workers means less people venturing into other areas of the economy: restaurants, bars, social entertainments, etc. so more layoffs on the way.
The thing is, none of this is new. We’ve been here before. But this is what happens when your politic is built on being a dimwitted, reactionary, asshole.
Now I don’t fault people for shopping at Amazon, Walmart, or name your big box store here that relies on cheap product from China. In this economy we’re all trying to survive. But, we need to really become more aware to why product is cheap, what that convenience is built on, and how we participate in that reliance on China.
People don’t seem to understand how fair wages and proper living conditions are connected. How disposable culture not only creates environmental catastrophe but reliance on the very thing one claims to be antagonistic towards.
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