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outsourcing is a way of delegating grunt work into an are that uses low value slow belts bc internally building a simple system using super fast expensive belts is not worth it

the problem w a strong currency (fast belts, low degradation) is that the cost of capital is effectively higher. it’s not worth hyperlooping the 5 minute walk to buy a carton of milk

other currencies (non compatible belt systems) can also escape inflation. but due to globalization only currencies like north korea’s r truly insulated and that has its own problems

china currency manipulation basically boils down to hoarding dollars so that the u.s. is forced into higher and higher end forms of service and production which starves a country of jobs if the populace isn’t educated enough to do them

this causes these lower end jobs to make more sense to outsource to china (and ironically the higher end jobs in the u.s. end up taken by h1bs)

the end result is that the u.s. despite its surplus of high end conveyor belts, cannot make use of them because they are too high end relative to the work the population can actually output

the only ways to leverage the dollar is to either manage skilled foreign workers or take those dollars and move to bali/thailand/etc...

so it attempts to reduce the efficacy of the dollar through inflation this allows “lower end” (blue collar, middle class, etc...) to be profitable