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“This is a GREAT time to move your COMPANY into the United States of America, like Apple, and so many others, in record numbers, are doing,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, promising “ZERO TARIFFS and “no environmental delays.”

https://archive.ph/CucF8

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have this feeling companies will just hunker down and wait it out until the next guy comes into office. While everyone suffer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Oh is that how it works? You just had to tell them? Stfu.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Fucking delulu.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

How long does this fuck think it takes to build a pharmaceutical or electronics plant? How you gonna source the materials dumass? Who do you think makes the equipment? You’re asking people to set up manufacturing and support infrastructure overnight, all the logistical integration…This man has a small child’s grasp on all of this shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

You just aren't ambitious and distruptive enough, below you can view my excellence plan.

Do it under tent light. Get a roller, flatten everything real nice. Setup a tent city near a stream so you can pump water in and industrial waste material out. Do it in a red state that will allow cheap child labor. Then hire any desperate people you can find for 50 cents over what the market rate is for unskilled labor to do the complicated stuff. When you make stuff, you shouldn't care if the products are up to specifications or not, that could cost a lot of money to do perfectly. Only accept cash in advance. If some whiny customer tries to sue you, make sure to draw it out until all your current contracts are done. Then just dissolve the "company" pick a new name out of the hat and operate again tomorrow. Have sales people selling in advance under the next companies name. When buying any supplies that won't be regularly needed, always fail to pay them, then tie them up in stupid contract disputes until you Phoenix yourself into a new company.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

See his quote about no environmental delays, we don't just have that stuff made over there because it's cheaper. We also do it because of the environmental fallout from having such plants.

Also no way will we get Americans to do these jobs. Hell Apple plants hsve to have nets to keep employees from killing themselves. Also don't they have to live at the plant?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hey look, environmental and labor rights issues aside, and not discounting that, if we want to make the United States a manufacturing powerhouse again I’m all for it but it requires actual central planning and investment ala Bernie Sanders, and it’s gonna take ten years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Central planning is terrible.... Bernie isn't about that, he's dialed in on next steps

Decentralized planning is better - don't control from on high, support it being done as local as possible. Cast a wide net, Foster competition while forcing them to share their answers

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Isn't this why Americans are sent to prison? So they can provide free labour?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Normalize fly by night operations, just not when Chinese nationals do it

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They can't. The ability to get an equipment loan is dead. It will take years to build factories. Longer than the presidential term. When you move fast you break things. In this case they broke the global economy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There is still a chance they only broke the American part, might turn out that the global economy doesn't need it. Fingers crossed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

America has the largest and richest consumer base. We are one of the few major economies to have a large population of millennials and gen z.

Who will Japan, Germany and China sell their shit to? There isn’t a market that can replace the US. The US also simply can’t make everything we like to consume. Which is why we are now headed for recession/stagflation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's all connected. Can't just break the American part. The American part is the financing of the non-Amarican parts.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Please! Do it quick before our economy collapses!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isn't it cheaper to stop doing business with us than to alienate the rest of the world? I mean, it sucks to be in the middle of this, but I have zero confidence that I'm going to survive the next 3 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Personally, I have also already come to terms with my death. Honestly, it is quite liberating in a way. I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Yes. Trump doesn't understand that that's an option.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would someone move a company to a country that is hell-bound to bankrupt itself?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Well it's not like putting your money in the stock market is a good idea either.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Lmao I’m moving most of my assets to international. Fuck this place. We’re headed for the cumulogranite.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Is this man functioning at full capacity? It took over a year to build a chain grocery store in a nearby town and that’s mostly stuff on shelves, not a production line set-up. Time was spent up front as well, in planning and logistics, that I wasn’t able to see, such that the total time to build a chain grocery store took well over a year, maybe two or even three.

Meanwhile, Trump expects “now” for manufacturing.

Never mind the fact that Americans won’t be able to buy products of that manufacturing due to high costs. What was the estimate, that iPhones manufactured here would cost $2k+? Something like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, for him this is full capacity, yes.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

$2300, and that assumes that they can even get the materials.

China has silently stopped shipping a lot of metals used in high tech applications that it controls 90% of the stock of. The 10%? Our previous trade partners Canada and Australia, who aren't big fans right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Not so silently, if you pay attention. There were brief headlines on the No selling to our defense contractors some time ago.

I’m in Trump time dilation so it’s hard to guesstimate when I read that one.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apple is going to become a US company? This is yuuge!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

It just needs to find a suit and show proper gratification first. No more DEI turtle necks.

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