Tariffs are an option as demographics tilt to the Left politically to encourage domestic workforce investment [1]. Capital and economic systems should serve humans, not make it straightforward exploitation for a few folks with big numbers in rows in a database [2].

China is rapidly decelerating economically because it got old so fast [3], and most of the world outside of India and Africa isn't far behind [4] [5]. TLDR Capitalism is running out of young productivity to squeeze for profits.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052550

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-...

[3] https://www.axios.com/2023/08/26/chinas-slow-moving-economic...

[4] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ageing-and-...

[5] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/Series/Anal...