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Christmas is going to be awesome.
To be honest they were super cheap. A Barbie doll or another name brand toy cost the same as the euro store crap this side of the pond. When I visited the states I brought Barbie's and Levi's jeans as souvenirs! Literally the same price as the shitty key rings I bought at the airport.
Americans mostly don't even want to do the manual labor jobs which have always been available in the US, like residential construction or picking crops. And the oligarchs want to both reduce immigration and re-industrialize? It's going to be comically unpopular.
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It is cheaper for them to take the sales loss that comes with raising prices rather than it would be to take any other approach. Austerity and Tariffs make the perfect economic shit sandwich.
It doesn’t help that the tariffs are nonsensical. It’s not even like they’re doing austerity with correctly targeted tariffs. Incredible work, masterful gambit, art of the deal they’re saying.
I still think trump is going after all manufacturing, tech and science, so he can control it. It's a very mob thing to do and it's kind of working. All of tech showed up at his inauguration and gave a shit ton of money. I'm willing to guess that manufacturing did too, they're just not household names.
Of course it won't. It would take years to move manufacturing to the USA. Building factories, hiring and training workers, none of that can happen over months. It's also a huge expenditure for the business which, along with higher payroll costs, would be passed on to consumers. Costs are going to go up weather they move manufacturing here or not so why not take the path of least resistance and just pass on the tariff costs?
Also, why invest in moving your entire manufacturing side to the US when you can be reasonably sure that the tariff fad will be over in 4 years at minimum, 10 years max?
Also, there's absolutely no indication that Americans want to be working at poverty wages in an assembly plant. None of this makes sense even if it "worked."
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it’ll. never. happen.
why? because profit is why the corps exist.
And it's not just the assembly factories that are the problem. Why the hell would you create a factory here when your entire supply chain is going to be hit by tariffs anyway. Not only are you still having to increase prices, now you're less competitive than offshore factories due to labor, input, and real estate costs. And why would you move supply chain factories here only for them to have to deal with both the above problems and retaliatory tariffs. The US market isn't worth that for a whole lot of things.
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Especially when the US Government changes its mind about tariffs every few minutes. No one can plan major infrastructure changes around that.
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I imagine Felon Drink Bleach might not be happy with such bold mainstream media news headlines indicating that his key objectives aren't being met.
He is going to tariff Mattel because that's all he knows how to do.
I wonder if he has bothered to figure out what the word tariff means yet.
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he has been obsessed recently with explaining how "beautiful little girls" can just live with fewer dolls :-/
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