No less than The Economist uses the BMI (“Big Mac Index”) to compare economies.
I like how this has “Murrkans dumb” vibes, but this picture is intellectually far better than what average Russian thinks about economy.
That said, 6+ bigmacs for an hour of minimum wage sounds very good. Actually it sounds like some heaven on earth.
‘Heaven is a place in Earth’ was, in fact, released in 1987 by Belinda Carlisle.
Fueled by cheap Big Mac’s, no doubt, though the song neglects to mention them.
Good work Gamers. Your hardware will be more expensive, but at least Biden won’t be suggesting a non-enforceable DEI directive at the HR of those game studios.
Your console, my price?
One category of people I literally care not for are gamers and their discretional spending.
One category of people i literally care not for are assholes who judge other peoples hobbies like they’re the end all be all of how people should act.
Bruh, I voted for Kamala Harris
meh. I play games, but wont call myself a Gamer. There’s like a whole separate culture of people who are obsessed with gaming culture, but don’t actually play games or when they do, only ones from AAA studios.
I only wouldn’t say I’m a gamer because “gamer” is no longer someone who is passionate about games; it’s the equivalent of the Discord mod stereotype, but without even the small modicum of power.
So? U want a medal?
I’m actually really excited about the smuggling opportunities such a high tariff presents. It’s a real job creator. It’s been a long time since we’ve had major smuggling operations on the great lakes. Will be a big boom for Chicago too, since that’s the point where the smuggled goods get put on trains. Maybe even get the outfit back together.
Al Capone watching his successors continue his legacy by smuggling PS5s and pirating games lol
Maybe we can have speakeasy arcades run by nerds with 3D printed tommy guns.
Apparently Google searches for “what is a tariff” skyrocketed after Trump won
Also “can I change my vote”
There are already quite a few regrets it seems, and the right wing are gonna learn how tariffs actually work real soon
I’m guessing the money they raise will also be used to help fund tax cuts for high income
I never use Google, so this is from a blank slate search. The top result for “can i c” is “can I change my vote?” Also the top 2 results for “what is” by itself are: “what is the 4b movement” and “what is a tariff”. Here come the leopards.
They’ll also be an excuse for more layoffs.
And lower wages.
Kamala (“or Kamabla” as the adult children like to call her", because that’s normal for a president to make jokes about names) was also going to increase the minimum wage
So, those underpaid children are going to get hit by tariffs and not get a wage increase
From this article
But in the case of the hefty tariffs that Trump put on China during his first term, economic studies found that most of those costs were passed on to American consumers.
Economists believe this could happen again. One study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, for example, calculated that Trump’s current tariff plans would increase costs for a typical American household by $2,600 a year.
Paying more for everything to own the libs! 🤡
Cant buy vidya console, got more money for eggs?
5D chess here people!
How someone can expect anything else to happen is beyond me.
These tariffs create American jobs and long term boosts American skills and manufacturing abilities.
I’m not sure it’s a safe bet. Only if the tariffs last longer than 4 years. Building new factories takes a couple years, then you need to break even all within 4 years? Just seems risky to me
Except they don’t. They just move them to other countries like Vietnam.
Unlikely. In the age of globalism, it’s much more likely that manufacturing will leave the US to dodge counter-tariffs. The combined markets of Europe and Asia is for most products larger than the US market, and that trend is only likely to increase in the future as Asia develops. Manufacturers know making stuff in Asia is just cheaper, and that American consumers are more likely to go into debt to buy stuff than other consumers. They also know that these tariffs are unlikely to last for long, because if the US takes the expected economic hit here then it becomes less likely that Trump/the GOP remains in control (eg midterms flip control back to the democrats).
Not much reason to move factories to the US, which is wildly expensive, when taking the hit and waiting it out is ultimately most likely cheaper.
A detailed and well reasoned response. Thanks!
That’s not the main point where you can assist that. Patent law would be the main point.
It’s just a stupid way of doing it. Companies should be getting other incentives to bring manufacturing home. The middle and lower class shouldn’t burn for that to happen.
And fridges, washers, dryers, tvs, vacuums, cars, phones.
Basically anything that has a microcontroller you’re going to be fucked.
In this day and age, pretty much anything powered by electricity.
look closer at everything you own. 99.9% of it will be 40% more expensive if you have to buy it again
Hypothetically, if I want to buy the Samsung S25 next year, and Tariffs are in place in America. I live in the UK. Why would my purchase be 40% more expensive? Samsung uses their own nodes, own fabs to manufacture their chips in south korea, they assemble the phones in Vietnam, after which they get shipped to the UK. Why would American tariffs affect literally everything as you have just said?
I think he probably talked about US people. You know, on a Article about a US (import-)Tarrif by a US President
Won’t products made in the US with parts imported from outside the US that are then exported have the same problem?
it depends on how the Tarrifs are implemented, but potentially yes.
I can however imagine that products designed for export would be excluded, since they generate US-based Jobs anyways.
You really should’ve included that it was a UK article though.
On a US lemmy instance and US sub. Everyone else is here as a guest/visitor, I guess?
idk, but lemmy.WORLD does not seem like a US-Exclusive Instance to me to be honest.
and the same goes for the word/sub “news”.
People did warn folks about this.
Good, gaming is for chud man children and incels.
Turns on Switch and looks at latest sales for jRPGs
Really nothing but anime fans lusting after booba.
Puts Unicorn Overlord in cart
Really nothing but anime fans lusting after booba.
Puts Unicorn Overlord in cart
Whoa now, have you played Unicorn Overlord? Garbage name aside, the game is fucking awesome. Much more than anime boobs.
YO HO HO AND A CACHE OF TORRENTS!
Truly proof gamers are the most oppressed group :c
/s
So if I was planning on building a gaming pc am I gonna want to do it before mid january?
He’s surpassed Bob Barker in Orange competition next coat he’s basically in black face
And china will be doing the same for all Americans product enter to they country.
Best news ever says dude still rocking the X-box 360 and happy about that.
