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#Trump has been wanting #tariffs for a while: > Trump’s Love for Tariffs Began in Japan’s ’80s Boom (2019 article) www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/u... archive link: archive.ph/Qxhdd

"Labor is prior to, and #independent of, #capital. Capital is only the fruit of #labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, December 3, 1861[2]

#askbluesky Tomorrow you become a #billionaire , #billionaires donate to you to make you rich. Assume those funds were ill-gotten. How do you ethically redistribute the unethical monies you've been given?

There was a post on wage gap between men / women's earnings. I think this may be a bit of a distraction, problem to focus on's absolute #poverty. If I had a $ million more today & someone had that plus double, I'm not going to be as bothered. The issue's more that million we're both not getting.

(can't reply to some of these people who you can only reply to if you follow them. ) #economics #money Instead of simply less billionaires, don't we want to make there be more millionaires? Growing the pie and enriching people together? Rather than simply making the rich poorer?

#AskBluesky #Economics What do people here think of the "socialist calculation problem"? Do you like some kind of markets, you just want them to be "just" ("good" capitalism?)? Or do you want some economic approach somehow beyond or different than a market? #money #finance #economy

#eclipse and #lunareclipse not trending on Bluesky?

How's everyone doing in the "Golden Age of America?" ...

some post I can't reply to on people speculating if smoking is good: Smoking rates and lung cancer went down but Parkinson's rates went up; speculation of causal link. don't need to smoke for any possible nicotine nootropic benefits, some people chew gum or have a lozenge #health