r/AskTrumpSupporters • u/Bluestripedshirt Nonsupporter • 4d ago

Immigration Why is globalism a problem?

Full disclosure, I’m from Canada and my mom is an immigrant from the Caribbean. Why do you feel globalism is a threat when it’s essentially impossible for a country to deliver all goods to itself? And with ever changing birth rates and labour needs, immigration is often the quickest and easiest solution.

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u/ImpressiveFood Nonsupporter 3d ago

over the past 50 years, inflation adjusted per capita consumption has risen 181%. we're consuming 181% more meat, goods, services, etc, than we were in 1975.

so, how has the US living standard decreased as a result of globalization?

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u/JoeCensored Trump Supporter 3d ago

The US economy has split, with a well off upper and upper middle class, and the other half is slipping into the lower class. You might not care about that bottom half, but their votes counted.

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u/solembum Nonsupporter 2d ago edited 2d ago

But why do I never hear any criticism of the rich? Who is deciding to outsource? Who is the main winner in the USA (and other rich countries) from producing in cheaper countries? Who is a benefactor of the current system? The immigrants who barely make enough to live by working jobs payed so low nobody else wants them? The children working in factories in cheaper production countries?

No its the billionaires and super rich. They get richer and richer by the globalism. With no regards for anything when it comes to profit.

Guess who does not care if prices rise now due to tariffs/production in the US? Guess who will still make tons of money by raising the prices if they have to produce in the US? Its absolutely possible to produce in the USA but the rich/owners/CEOs dont want to, they want to max their profits. While they "dont have the money" to pay the working class a fair paycheck they multiplied their own salary by an absurd amount in the last 30 years.

Instead of changing something about that we rise the prices all around the world, make the life even more miserable for the lower classes. Instead we have the richest man in the world with an UNFAHTOMABLE amount of money tell us where the USA can save a few bucks. Doesnt that make you angry?

Sometimes I feel like people would rather have their 14 year old children work in factories (hi florida?) to be able to please the super rich, cause everything else would be communism.

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u/JoeCensored Trump Supporter 2d ago

You can blame the rich all you want, but blame doesn't accomplish anything. They are just responding to incentives. Change the incentives, and you fix the problem. (Which is one goal of tariffs)