Reference to Aesop's fable?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belly_and_the_Members" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belly_and_the_Members</a>
To make the analogy even more perfect, the character should be holding a saw rather than a hammer.
I think a lesson is going to be taught, all right.<p>Unfortunately the feedback loop in nations is much slower than in bodies.
This is a pretty reductive take. If a nation works 6 days a week, 12 hours a shift then obviously they will outcompete any nation where people work 5 days a week for 8 hours.<p>Protecting workers from that kind of competition seems fair. Tariffs aren't bad in itself. They are just a tool.<p>Unfortunately fools wielding a tool like this can cause a lot of damage, but that's true for any tool.
"If a nation works 6 days a week, 12 hours a shift then obviously they will outcompete any nation where people work 5 days a week for 8 hours." - This is not obviously true to me, can you explain why it is for you?
That is a ... pretty reductive take as well.
I never realized I've been working this much.
I don't think the comic is claiming that all tariffs in any context are bad, that would indeed be a reductive, bad take.<p>Given the timing and the metaphor of blood being sent to and from a limb, this is almost surely a reference to the tariff threats against Canada.