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Chinese social media users have mocked Donald Trump with an AI-generated video showing overweight Americans working in factories.

A viral 30-second clip shows a series of miserable-looking rotund Americans slowly sewing garments and building smartphones on crowded shop floors.

The video, which is set to Chinese music, is called “make America great again” and has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

https://archive.ph/IMju4

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Which is why, generally, taxing wealth and having the state invest it in supportive infrastructure and subsidising is the preferred option for developed economies that want manufacturing (back).

Sweeping, protectionist tariffs are usually a painful measure of necessity, if you have an economy without any developed industrial or service sectors, where initial investments are basically impossible due there being no taxable wealth and no market incentives, because of global players always being more profitable and cheaper, than any beginning industry that has to go through growth processes and learning experiences. (More selective tariffs or outright import/export bans of course also have their place for a multitude of political reasons, e.g. the EU not wanting a lot of artificially cheap and lower-health-standards US meat)