cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/18931801
Too bad they are missing their Christmas bonuses.
This is a perfect story, that’s why I don’t believe it happened.
yeah this some fake justice porn shit
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What’s so unbelievable about “we’re gonna spend all our money on capital immediately and fire you all” on a whim?
That they would so blatantly admit to it, explain their reasoning, and no mention of pushback, just confusion
I could see a small operation being honest about it.
seconded. this feels like some facebook bullshit about my cousin was told by someone in the government
Yeah, I’ve worked in factories and this smells of a cautionary fairytale.
The company just happens to have enough cash on hand to suddenly buy 52+ weeks worth of material? Their suppliers are ready to fulfill an order that large that quickly out of the blue?
Where will the 52 weeks of material be stored?
how long until we see people starting to google “is it too late to change my vote?”
Turns out, less than a week.
He fucking called it.
I wanna see a surge in “did I make the wrong vote choosing trump” or “was kamala harris a better option”
This community is going to have ample content for the next four years (and hopefully only four years). Even if this story itself is likely bullshit.
Hording of soon-to-be-expensive/soon-to-be-unavailable products is going to be be a huge thing over the next couple months.
The joke going around during the Bush years was that Americans learn basic, 3rd grade geography via which country we’ve invaded most recently.
Looks like a whole bunch of baby brained Americans are going to be learning basic high school level economics through forced, remedial, live demonstration, in the form of probably a world wide depression.
And something tells me when the tariff’s do disappear, the prices charged are going to stay the same.
Hello Corona effect
snopes?
Yea this is fake as hell. Fun thought though.
Definitely an interesting thought experiment. It will be interesting to see if the tariffs actually happen how they will impact the economy. I work in telecommunications and most of the equipment we use is manufactured in China, regardless of the supplier. Any tariffs will impact about 70% or the material we use for projects.
Zero sympathies left now. In fact, from now on, I’m going to revel in all of your misery. Because that’s the only positive thing that will come for us as a species moving towards our doom, thanks to all of you dumb fucks.
We told you so.
A great parable to explain the broad consequences of this election, despite the story not itself being very believable.
dont know why youre being downvoted. this has no credibility. “an american woman in pennsylvania’s husband works for a company”
I’m not worried about downvotes when I engage in politics. If it’s more than I’m expecting to see, I might reassess whether my take is reasonable or comes from misunderstanding and poor judgement. But if it’s a handful of downvotes on a take I stand by, I’m not going to pay them much mind.
See there’s this thing called retaliatory tariffs…
Trump brilliantly figured out the best ways to get votes, and it worked. He has no reason to do anything he promised because either he just stops democracy (I don’t think so) or goes away in 4 years and is not allowed to run again – either way, he doesn’t need to care that much about popularity. The number one reason he wanted to become president was to get immunity from the numerous crimes he had done.
That’s why I think the tariffs are not going to happen. It would directly hurt the richest corporations. Why would they do it? Because they promised to? Okay
Good. Get fucked.
