[GranteedEV]

Don't get me wrong, I think this blanket tariff idea is idiotic as with most MAGA concepts and the implementation laughable at best.

but I lowkey think there could be some long term advantages for manufacturing if the tariffs stick

The price gap between mass produced foreign goods (I'm moreso referring to electronics/appliances and that sort of thing) and locally manufactured goods has become so vast that the latter doesn't benefit from economy of scale anymore.

So when people choose between x @ $1000 and y @ $200, where x has a 15y warranty and y has a 1y warranty, people, myself included, will choose y. y will last about 2 years or 3 and then we buy y again. And again. The modern phenomenon of disposability.

Back before time, if your vacuum or blender broke, you went to an electronics store and got it repaired. That's the sort of job that has died out, because usually it means getting a whole new motherboard which has already been depreciated due to rapid development cycles for foreign manufactured electronics.

A locally manufactured electronic, in order to compete, would need to be designed eithong term quality and repairability in mind, but hypothetically this does help the consumer in the long term.

Is this an isolated scenario? Yes, tariffs in general are stupid. But not only could this help smaller niche operations compete with mass produced trash, but US tariffs on asian products would hypothetically benefit Canada too as our economy of scale for manufacturing could grow to something more employable.

It's not exactly a pro free market take, but it is a halfassed answer to a genuine issue of the past ~25 years. I would expect it to fail due to corruption and poor implementation, much like the USSR, but hypothetically, allowing electronics & appliances manufactured on this continent to compete with asian content would in fact be a nice idealistic outcome.

okay devil's advocacy over.

If I were trying to solve that problem with legislation, I would require manufacturers to support products for longer periods, and outlaw proprietary parts that have made corporations rich. And of course put in a billionaire tax - you pay 10% of your net worth over $1,000,000,000 in tax annually.

Because foreign countries are not the true problem, it is capitalist greed.