alt Hacker NewsNot a quick buck, it's just so much cheaper to have them manufacture magnets and us the cool stuff, plus the other way around would be pretty hard to pull off.
Not a quick buck, it's just so much cheaper to have them manufacture magnets and us the cool stuff, plus the other way around would be pretty hard to pull off.
It was absolutely a quick buck compared to the price paid by American Labor and, soon, the price paid by America itself. This is such a clean example of both single-sided accounting and market externalities that you have to be very deep in the neoliberal sauce to think that prices are their own justification, rather than the resultant of intentional policy decisions meant to benefit one small group of Americans at the expense of the rest of us.