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[-] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago

This makes it harder for local businesses in Canada to compete with those in China, hurting local ecommerce and brick and mortar shops. The playing field should be leveled and no one should be subsidized.

[-] fresh@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Or at least make a distinction between commercial and non-commercial mail. I understand subsidizing a letter to a developing country but this is just extracting rent.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Yup. It definitely makes it harder.

Some will always subsidize others, unless you're a libertarian, this is pretty much an obvious moral axiom. With that out of the way, China 30 years ago was probably worth subsidizing, but China today is not.

this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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