Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds
ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
How is this news? Gas companies have been doing it for at least 60 years. Oil price goes up? Prices go up at midnight. Oil price goes down? You see, friend, this gasolie was made with the expensive oil, there’s a certain lag in the supply chain that we need to account for etc. etc.
Pure capitalism knows just one correct price, and that’s the price that the market will bear. Combine it with a monopoly and sky’s the limit.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Unpopular Opinion: If you bought a game console when prices were exploding you aren’t really in a position to argue real financial harm because… its a fucking video game console. It’s not housing, food, or some other major need.
Out of all the companies who will argue this, I honestly think the media companies have the largest leg to stand on because why are people just eating the cost increase of something that isn’t a need if they financially “can’t afford it.”
Also this isn’t a Trump “screw up.” The money landing in the pockets of the companies who donated to his campaign was the end goal from the beginning.
How do I know? Because a judge allowed the tariffs to go in while it was determined if they were legal or not and part of the reason the judge agreed was the Trump admin lawyers promising it would all be paid back to consimers if they lost. They never had any intent.
professor_prime@lemmychan.org 6 days ago
You’re part of the problem.
A_be_seedy@beehaw.org 1 day ago
How? The opinion portion of the comment youre replying to is perfectly valid. It’s why any time there’s looting (BLM protests, Katrina, etc) the foil to the argument about lawlessness/looting is that the looting is almost always necessities (food, bedding, etc)
If you think the commenter is wrong for having stated that it wasn’t a mistake by Trump to pocket the tariff money, then youre wrong.
professor_prime@lemmychan.org 1 day ago
Try to stay on topic, moron.
If a customer got ripped off, it doesn’t matter if it was for a need or a want. Dipshits like you need to realize it’s us vs. them and stop working against our own interests.
You’re part of the problem too and I guarantee you don’t have the mental capacity to realize it.
Keep being stupid.