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I could agree with this if there was a movement to produce domestically, then tariff imports. What I'm seeing is a tariff in an effort to drive domestic production and I just don't see that environment being a good investment without significant government subsidies.

The US wanted more Silicon foundries so they're dolling out big bucks to make it happen, once you're producing domestically, you tariff similar imports to drive sales of local goods.

I mean, I'm not an expert in macroeconomics by any means, so it's possible that I'm way off and the tariffs of cheap imports will start to drive multinational conglomerates to take a hit on cash flow and invest in domestic production. That's a big leap of faith to take when you have a hungry nation though.

I dont see how tariffs are going to remove cheap goods. Its just going to raise the price floor.

I agree. It could bring about positive changes, but slowly, and it will be much worse at first. Of course Trump and co-conspirators will manage to blame the problems on Democrats somehow.

So Accelerationism, basically.

essentially none of us make enough to pay us to do something. wealth is so unequal only the rich can afford american labor.

That and it'll only take a couple million in bribes to get rid of any regulation they want.

Do you think he'll keep his promise about someone raising that price?

Anyone with a fucking brain in their head knew this would be the effect. It was said multiple times by many people but ignored by idiots generally.

Not that I’m defending them, however, they do not have an obligation to educate the American electorate. Trust me, I understand the outrage, however, in this case I think it’s misplaced. It’s not entirely the fault of Walmart and Costco CEO’s that everything is built from the ground up to be against the average person. In this specific case, especially when it comes to politics, I point to the absolute failure of the American education system to have massive amounts of the voting populous’ understanding of how the US government functions end in the 6th grade.

Now we can go back and fourth on the causes of the lack of education. In which, there’s still blame to put on CEO’s, but it’s a feature, not a bug that it is the way it is.

No

I'll get mine and I'll be fine!

• motto of the American

Most of the people I talk to care about the downtrodden and homeless, but if they, themselves are prepared... It's what are ya gonna do.... Sigh.....

They don't really care, none of them would ever step foot in a soup kitchen, give anyone $5. It's in the moment, saving face or not at all.

I recommend you read up on the Tragedy Of The Commons, it will make you realize how it feels to be a blade of grass.

Born just in time to see the price of a Costco hotdog go up.

Truly the beginning of the apocalypse.

The hot dogs should be fine, actually. They're made in California and the CEO is extremely averse to raising their prices.

It's not like manufacturing is going to come back to US.
Plus they want to get rid of all the cheap illegal labor, so no it's not gonna come back.

Costco's whole thing is that they have a flat markup on all their goods. It's static - price goes down for them, they lower their retail.

They also pay a reasonable wage - my buddy works there and is clearing 31.50/hr + voluntary OT + 6k bonus/yr. Regularly makes 80k a year, just floor staff not management/supervisor.

And they pay their upstream and logistics providers 2-3x market rates as well- my girlfriend works for a major trucking company doing pricing and Costco voluntarily overpays for their lanes so they have more reliable deliveries.

Many many companies price-gouge and underpay their employees or steal wages. Costco doesn't. Fuck Walmart, Safeway, Amazon, etc.

Perhaps, instead of passing the full brunt of the costs onto the customers, maybe the executives and shareholders take home less profit? Maybe take a financial hit to easy the cost of living burden on the commoners?

The shareholders demand consistent returns, and the executives have a fiduciary duty to ensure that happens. In other words:

He's not trying to go to war with Trump, I'd wager. Just trying to insulate the company from bad press when prices inevitably go up. I'm sure they are also trying to gently encourage the electorate to contact their representatives to avoid the problem altogether.

Either way Costco is going to be ok, and he probably won't be as likely to get the Luigi treatment.