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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 6:04 PM1 replyview on HN

> Good for the bottom line, bad for the worker

Bad for most workers. Good for a cabal. The Jones Act directly lead to the failure of American shipbuilding.


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stackskiptontoday at 6:17 PM

Say what?

Jones Act didn't kill American Shipbuilding, cost of American worker did.

However, whole reason for Jones Act is attempt to protect the American Merchant Marine. If you can't move things via water in wartime, you don't have an empire.

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