Trump's extortion through tarrif's plan is working so well huh? What a fucking joke.
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Can't robots make toys for us in 2025? We shouldn't need to use humans at slavery level wages.
The robots in China are cheaper, especially when there are tariffs to import them.
Do you want to tell them that people with a diminishing budget and ballooning costs will simply stop buying toys, or shall I?
But muh 11 year old baby girl dosent need 30 dolls!!!11!1!!
Only 2 or 3 or 4!
And they might be more expensive than 30 dolls
Damn, and my kid just asked for 30 dolls for Christmas.
Why does Mike Johnson always look so evil in every picture he's in?
Some books match their cover.
He looks that way because he is that way.
Yeah, fair. I think a lot of it has to do with the over-grooming. Gavin Newsom gives me the same vibes with his slicked back hair, and having fascists on his new podcast that he pals around with also doesn't help matters.
Newsom has always been slimy neolib scum. He doesn't even try to hide it.
probably because he looks like he's one of these guys
That's kind of his thing.
Of course it won't. It would take years to move manufacturing to the USA. Building factories, hiring and training workers, none of that can happen over months. It's also a huge expenditure for the business which, along with higher payroll costs, would be passed on to consumers. Costs are going to go up weather they move manufacturing here or not so why not take the path of least resistance and just pass on the tariff costs?
Especially when the US Government changes its mind about tariffs every few minutes. No one can plan major infrastructure changes around that.
And they never were going to pay labor in America. Our world economic systems created this problem with the US at the head. Now that we are entering late stages of capitalism we want to cry about things being unfair... We have to rethink the whole world economy not just what the US is doing.
And it's not just the assembly factories that are the problem. Why the hell would you create a factory here when your entire supply chain is going to be hit by tariffs anyway. Not only are you still having to increase prices, now you're less competitive than offshore factories due to labor, input, and real estate costs. And why would you move supply chain factories here only for them to have to deal with both the above problems and retaliatory tariffs. The US market isn't worth that for a whole lot of things.
I had a comment like this for aptera which is being built in the us but several of its most expensive components. Battery and the carbon fiber shell are built in asia and europe respectively. Seems to me they would be best off manufacturing in like ireland or something since it won't make a big difference in how much they charge folks but would lower costs for selling around the world outside the us. Now given this is when high tarrifs are everywhere and of course day to day who knows what they will be. Still if I was a business the best long term would be stay out of the us the way I see it.
Also, why invest in moving your entire manufacturing side to the US when you can be reasonably sure that the tariff fad will be over in 4 years at minimum, 10 years max?
Also, there's absolutely no indication that Americans want to be working at poverty wages in an assembly plant. None of this makes sense even if it "worked."
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But guuuuuys, everybody's supposed to lie and make less money and become slaves :( if you don't do that, what's this last 50 years of political gamesmanship and duplicity and propaganda been for??
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Only doll ill buy is a Trump voodoo one.
you will probably needs to get one ifs dyed rat hair first.
Ironically, the only toy that will be made in the USA.
2 dolls, how about no dolls, you don't need dolls in the mines.
Here, play with this pixelated pickaxe.
Oh come on. Just get 2 barbies instead of 30, unpatriotic bitches.
I realize it's a joke, but donvict and his shitstain crew have managed to now politicize not only nearly every other fucking thing, but now they have managed it for toys, too.
I mean, they managed to politicize the fucking weather, and that's on top of fact-based reporting, science, medicine, vaccines, social distancing measures, etc....
Turns out literally everything (figuratively speaking) is political because politics dictate how everything is run and how we live our everyday lives.
Sure but not everyone wants to talk about red vs. blue all the time in everyday conversations. The qons make that harder and harder with each passing year. They've ruined just trying to stay on "nice" topics like the weather - if it snows or you get a cold snap, it's all "gosh, where is Al Gore right now???!!!" kind of thing.
Now even presents for children are going to be loaded with magabrained overtones.
When the climate stops being nice due to the long term effects of climate change, it makes sense that people will start talking about Al Gore and what could have been. Whether you want to talk about it or not, it's still political.
Political Dolls would be a nice name for a punk rock band.
It’s such a crazy out of touch statement to make… mind boggling
I imagine Felon Drink Bleach might not be happy with such bold mainstream media news headlines indicating that his key objectives aren't being met.
he has been obsessed recently with explaining how "beautiful little girls" can just live with fewer dolls :-/
anyone that looks like ivanka specifically.
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Americans mostly don't even want to do the manual labor jobs which have always been available in the US, like residential construction or picking crops. And the oligarchs want to both reduce immigration and re-industrialize? It's going to be comically unpopular.
No the oligarchs don't want any of that. They want other shit they are getting like less governmental oversight but they are also getting this shit no one asked for because the people getting them the first thing are vastly dumber than they anticipated.
The first thing going so well they can't really be bothered to deal with the second thing right now.
This is largely untrue. I have worked in manufacturing my entire adult life and in my experience people are very eager to do manual labor type jobs if those jobs pay well and provide stability. The problem is that most of them don't. It would make everything more expensive to pay everyone doing these jobs better but it would be worth it longer term by making a society that doesn't just rely on there being a constant supply of an artificial second class of people that can be underpaid and exploited with impunity. When people say "nobody wants to work manual jobs..." the implied rest of that sentence is "...to make the same amount of money as someone working retail."
I hate Trump and his idiotic tariffs, but this argument that we need immigrants to do all the jobs Americans don't want to do is based on the racist idea that Americans are too good to do these jobs- the reality is, they are simply not desperate enough to take them for the amount of pay that is being offered. It's a blatantly false narrative and it only serves to harm anyone left of Mussolini.
The manual labor willingness drops off in the 40s as people's health begin to deteriorates people who work in manufacturing tend to drink and smoke and be arthritic with failing discs and knees by 55. White collar jobs have a big advantage with aging, which is why your average age in a factory skews young.
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Easy: just set up labor camps and put any ”undesirables” there.
Wellness farms and factories for all us antidepressant “addicts”. Out with the migrant workers and in with the new “mentally woke” caste. It’s a big, inclusive caste involving LGBTQ, black, Semitic, Italians, the Irish…
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It is cheaper for them to take the sales loss that comes with raising prices rather than it would be to take any other approach. Austerity and Tariffs make the perfect economic shit sandwich.
It doesn’t help that the tariffs are nonsensical. It’s not even like they’re doing austerity with correctly targeted tariffs. Incredible work, masterful gambit, art of the deal they’re saying.
I still think trump is going after all manufacturing, tech and science, so he can control it. It's a very mob thing to do and it's kind of working. All of tech showed up at his inauguration and gave a shit ton of money. I'm willing to guess that manufacturing did too, they're just not household names.
Read all about it in this month’s riveting issue of Duh.
India boasts the most competitive labor costs in Asia, with a national-level minimum daily wage of approximately INR 178 (equivalent to US$2.13), translating to around INR 5340 (approximately US$63.97) per month.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/mattel-ceo-toy-manufacturing-trump-tariffs.html
With economics like that, it completely makes sense that tariffs will bring manufacturing back to the USA. /s
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