danielpalos
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industrial automation would have made it more feasible.And? What does location have to do with the current discussion? You said "The wealthy spread cash among themselves. Working folks never get a taste." You never specified rich or working in a specific country.
Besides, I'm guessing that the guy you bought your Maserati from ALSO employs quite a few less-rich people in his dealership, as well, unless he's filing his own paperwork and moonlighting as a mechanic.
Read the thread before jumping in, dope.
We're talking about the US economy which should be obvious in a thread about US tax rates.
Read the thread, dolt. Doesn't change a fucking thing I said, nor does it make a convincing backpedal for you.
Let me break it down for you, since you want us to believe you became "rich" without ever having clue one how the most basic things work.
Presuming that your Maserati dealer friend didn't build the car in his backyard and, in fact, got it the normal way a dealer acquires cars (and leaving aside the fact that YOU, not me, digressed from discussions of US taxes to rant about rich elitism):
While Maserati is, indeed, an Italian-based car manufacturer, they do employ Americans. Like most corporations in this global age, they have divisions in more than one country, complete with employees.
Furthermore, dimwit, the act of bringing the car to the US for you to buy it provides employment for all manner of not-rich Americans. Or did you think Maserati employed wizards to just wave their wands and POOF the car to the dealership?
And finally, as I mentioned and you conveniently "missed", your friend's dealership employs any number of not-rich Americans, unless he's working 40-hour days to do it all himself.It absolutely does.Read the thread, dolt. Doesn't change a fucking thing I said, nor does it make a convincing backpedal for you.
A car manufactured in Italy does nothing for workers in America, dope
Yikes.
That isn't entirely true.
What if the competition causes US manufacturers to either make better cars, or reduce the price of existing cars.
Do workers benefit from having higher quality, or lower cost cars? I think so. So while you might be accurate in saying that it won't directly help those workers of car companies..... it does benefit ALL workers across our entire country.
If you doubt that, look at India. So India had for 70 years prior, a completely closed economy. Specifically in the car market, it was locked down. As a result they had the Hindustan Ambassador. This car was designed in 1955, and Hindustan Motors bought the design, and started producing this car in 1957.
They continued to produce this garbage car until 2014. How could a car company, make the exact same car for just under 60 years? Because there was no competition from foreign companies. Without any competition, the company had no reason to come up with a newer, or better design.
In the late 90s, they liberalized the economy, and allowed foreign competition. Throughout the 2000s, the car fell dramatically in popularity, as foreign companies offered much better alternatives to a 60 year old design.
So did the workers who made the Ambassador benefit from this? Not directly. They likely were laid off.
But everyone.... all workers, including those who now needed new jobs, all had newer and better cars to purchase. Everyone was better off.
Exactly!!
Behold, the two-stroke Trabant!
The pinnacle of the East German automobile industry.
Available after putting your name on a 10-13 year waiting list.
Trabant - Wikipedia
Puts the West German Mercedes and BMW to shame, doesn't it?