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krisevol@lemmus.org 1 week agoThey did ask for it. They wanted cheap Chinese stuff. Even now people are made at Trump for the tariffs saying the Chinese products will become unaffordable. Asking for that is telling companies to send jobs overseas. They are the same thing
theneverfox@pawb.social 6 days ago
People want cheap products in a general sense, they don’t like off shoring, it was hugely disruptive to jobs and the quality nose dives (at least for a time, sometimes permanently). They didn’t ask for or choose it, they’re the low information side of the system
Of course they’re upset at things being tariffed, they don’t want prices going up. They likely have some preference to buy things made locally, or by a country with a reputation
None of this is a choice made by consumers, it’s a generalized set of incentives and pressures created by the market
It’s like planned obsolescence… People hate it, it’s being sold to them