Restaurants showing price increase due to min wage increase
Republicans : good people should know
Amazon showing tariff increase
Republicans: HOW DARE YOU!
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For awhile my former employer put "obamacare cost increase" on my paycheck.
Costco should implement this right fucking now, and call it the trump tariff tax.
Every mom and pop online retailer, every eBay seller, every Etsy seller should have trump tariff taxes list on their products.
Coders should make easy to implement add-ons for all major online retail POS systems and supply them freely.
Correct. They were never going to choose their employees and customers over Trump.
Because they are on the same team.
Please explain? I no understand?
A false story is pushed that Amazon will reveal tariff pricing. The government pushes back hard and threatens Amazon. Amazon backs down.
The truth is Amazon never planned on revealing anything at all. They are playing a role to help this asshole administration. This process serves as a warning to any other businesses that talk about revealing anything to do with tariff price increases and stifling the discussion.
This keeps a large block of the populace in the dark about the matter.
Why would the tRump regime try and pretend to be subtle about this? they have had no problem saying much more heinous and illegal things.
It's not necessarily just about subtlety, it's forced compliance in advance.
If you saw a business doing this, it doesn't just send the message that the rise in prices is Trump's fault, but that the business is calling them out on it and is not getting punished for it.
This is the new bully beating up the biggest kid to establish dominance.
Temu did it. For some reason the narrative that Amazon was doing it spread rapidly in US news with absolutely no source attributed. Someone was pushing that narrative.
Or could it actually be that Bezos is pissed at Trump and is sticking it to him to make him look bad?
Sometimes, things are actually as they seem. Straight paths are straight.
Bezos has one goal: self enrichment.
If Trump's in the way, he's going to be a petty bitch about it.
Honestly as big of a piece of shit as bezos is, he's ten times better then musk.
Musk has multiple goals:
- self enrichment.
- create a fascist state.
- do as much irreparable damage as possible
Don't forget 4. Satisfy his creepy breeding fetish by having as many kids as possible
Honestly as big of a piece of shit as bezos is, he's ten times better then musk
While I don't disagree on character level, I think what bezos has done with amazon is probably much worse for the climate than anything Musk has done.
Amazon really enabled consumerism on steroids, where people buy tons and tons of goods often not because of real needs but because corporations through ads and influencers have talked them into wanting the new shiny stuff. These goods are produced cheaply and with little regard for the environment (or for the people producing them), in some poor asian country and then shipped half way around the planet, often even sent by air mail just because people lack self control and "need" to have their order in the mail immediately. And then, be it because it was an impulse purchase or because of cheap construction or the thing not being hip and new anymore, the stuff goes to a landfill after only months or a few years of use, wasting tons of resourses and energy consumed in prodiction and turning into a burden on the environment again.
All that is not to say Musk is somehow not as bad, but to say they are both equally very bad people, just for different reasons
It also has not yet been proven that Besos is a Nazi afaik.
Nazi? No, but very, very bad man? Yes. He's as bad as you can possibly get without becoming fulll-blown Nazi.
You think bezos doesn't want this things?
Yeah I think this is the right take - and for the record this is a well known weakness of fascism that consolidating power in a unified center is difficult because of all the different fashy interests duking it out for their own piece of the pie and sometimes it spills out onto the streets in a situation like this.
I admit that I'm being conspiratorial here. But even if it's wasn't a planned ahead, doesn't the fact that Bezos folded minutes after the public learned about this tariff pricing scheme serve the same purpose?
To all the business people, Bezos looks like the first guy to fight the gorilla, but I'm having trouble accepting that he was either brave or ever in any danger.
The fact that Bezos folded after a short time is because Trump is just fucked enough in the head to try and destroy his business or kill him. Remember, that barely sentient cantaloupe has the might of the US military behind him.
Also consumers will think “oh Amazon was trying to be the good guy here. And now when I shop there I will expect things to cost a bit more. “
Just rename it from tariffs cost to freedom tax or some bullshit. "Cost of not filing tax" would go along the bullshit fantasy they're trying to push.
I also like to make claims without presenting any credible sources to support them. We're getting as feverish, isolated, and conspiracy-minded as /r/thedonald was. Don't let them make you blind to actual, credible horrible stuff that is happening and drivel like this, because it will give you outrage fatigue and have you distrust literally everything that doesn't agree with your preconceived (and increasingly extremist) opinions.
That's silly, digikey shows tariffs and has shown tariffs during both trump presidencies.
Somebody ought to write a browser extension or user script that modifies the Amazon page to call out the price increases due to tariffs. (Even if it can't necessarily know directly, it could at least pull camelcamelcamel data from before the tariffs started and subtract, or something like that.)
Using a price-tracking site or browser extension should make it obvious.
It actually is a classic fascist thing: it makes the target, Amazon in this case, culpable in maintaining the lie, which opens the door to bigger lies down the road.
This administration could have gotten away with 10-20% here and there, but straight 3 digit tariffs on China products is going to feel like a slap on the face to a lot of people
It's worse than that though, because of how unpredictable and on a whim he's been doing all this.
There's going to be empty shelves starting in the next week or two. We're just hitting the first wave of hundred of cancelled cargo shipments from China. The supply chain has finally caught up to the start of this bullshit. Prices are going to skyrocket as products run out
Evidence: trust me bro
They should called it "Trump Tariffs Tax"
Though it is imporant to weigh that people are going to measure the increases in costs against what they believe to be the cause, accurate or not.
Right now any cost increases are going to be blamed on tariffs no matter how (in)accurate that may be to any given price increase.
The overall narrative has to change or Amazon has to eat the price increases before this scenario feasibly plays out. Currently this just focuses on the tariffs further.
Why would they have to eat it? Just set the new price and people buy it.