I put the AND there for a reason. China AND third some other third world countries.
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US considers 25% tariff on game consoles
- Thread starter Kolx
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I put the AND there for a reason. China AND third some other third world countries.
Trumps that kid you didn't invite over to play games because he sucks ass.
one day you come home and he's in your room playing all your shit cause your mom invited him over cause she felt bad for him.
He quickly leaves cause he erased all your save files, shit in your pillowcase and stolen your favorite video game. And of course he grows up to be president. Fuck his kidself and grown self.
Shove the tariffs up your orange ass.
"But GYNAS paying!" fucking moron
one day you come home and he's in your room playing all your shit cause your mom invited him over cause she felt bad for him.
He quickly leaves cause he erased all your save files, shit in your pillowcase and stolen your favorite video game. And of course he grows up to be president. Fuck his kidself and grown self.
Shove the tariffs up your orange ass.
"But GYNAS paying!" fucking moron
Do it. I have a massive backlog dating back through every console generation, I'll keep myself occupied. This will be worth it for the anger that it'll cause alt-right gamers who might even consider not voting Trump. If Trump losing further support means the game industry has to be shat on for a bit, fair trade.
I thought MS used a Foxconn plant in Mexico for some production.
Margins are king my guy
This has far and wide reaching consequences, including irreversible damage to many industries and the loss of thousands of jobs.
lol if you actually think this you haven't been paying attention
The UK is destroying its own economy to for the sake of racism. US is no different.
This hasn't been the case for quite a while. The reality of it is that all the skill sets for manufacturing exist there and nowhere else
Lmao no you didn't, you said "China and some other third world countries". Grammatically speaking, that obviously implies that China is a third world country. Maybe that's not what you actually meant, but it's certainly what you wrote.
Get China to admit that. The rest of the world recognizes it as a superpower, and it generally wants to act like one, but bring up trade and China will insist it is a "developing" nation and not a superpower.
First they came for the LGBT community. I stayed silent.
Then they took away Medicare. I stayed silent.
Then they proposed tariffs on consoles. They crossed the line.
Perhaps Nintendo and Sony should produce their consoles in japan again, or other asian countries. Production in China comes cheap on first sight but with a high price too (it's a surveillance state that puts minorities in camps, working conditions aren't good, they defend their own economy from foreigners while stealing tech and designs and buying out europe companies, harbours etc,. making us more dependent on them (so that no one can criticize them anymore), not to talk about their behaviour in africa and pollution of the environment (FCKW (ozone killer) is forbidden worldwide, still China seems to pump it into the air...).
Gaming (and Trump) aside i think it wouldn't be the worst thing if "the west" would get a bit more independent from chinas production again. Perhaps Trump goes too far and for the wrong reasons, but i also feel Europe is sleeping on Chinas ambitions to get more influence and power in our countries.
Yeah, because Trump was hugely popular in these forums before these proposed tariffs. We all hated him for a 1000 reasons before, now we just have 1001 reasons.
Don't worry, I'm sure that the US will find a way to frame India or Vietnam trade as unfair, discriminatory and a national security threat some 20 years from now, and people will eat it up again.
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None of that stuff is a "high price" to corporations though. They thrive off of a workforce that is dehumanized and disposable. It's the foundation of basically all capitalism.
Please, don't bring up your politics here. Both sides are corrupt. I don't want to think about those people.
...Wait, my toys are affected by this? Now they have gone TOO FAR!!!
it's just what i think and of course i'm using chinese products too, while trying to buy more products from countries that have better standards and laws, but atm it's almost impossible to not buy chinese products in europe.
Trump about to buy some cheap game industry stocks and then end the tariffs and profit. Such a gamer.
"What? You can't afford an extra 25%? An iPhone costs $1,000. This is nothing. Are you one of THE POORS?!"
At that point you are still buying rare earth materials for a much higher price and thus passing the cost to the customers. Saying you are quickly enough to resume mining, invest a lot of money and then to see how the tariffs only apply to American companies...
All these things can be said in regards to Trump being in power, too. Let him keep shitting things up and making even people who supported him change their minds. Get him outta there.
The whole question is "To what end?" I know. I know. There is no rational decision making behind anything Trump does, but I thought his fucked up and completely off-base logic for tariffs was that it would bring jobs back to the US. The idea being that he wants the average american to be making $10/day working on an assembly line making XBOX's because it makes unemployment go down and creates the illusion of a strong economy. The fact is Americans do not have the skills required to manufacture these electronics. China has been manufacturing these consoles since what...the PS1 days? It would take years, if not decades, to train the American workforce to do these jobs and again, the endgame would be Americans having to do these jobs for the same wages that the Chinese are making *(maybe + 25%), just for companies to break even moving their production to the US. It will never, ever, happen. So again, I ask, "to what end?"
Yup and the costs of training a new population on top of opening new factories is not an overnight thing, would takes years to come online
Lmfao I remember before the election there was this one guy mentioning how any true gamer needs to vote for Trump because yadda yadda social justice yadda yadda. I 100% knew that guy would regret his decision at some point.
TO BE FAIR, THOUGH: I don't agree with these tariffs at all but they're trying to get companies to not do business in China, this (like a lot of trade wars) is NOT the way to go about it but it's more than just the current administration looking to raise tariffs just because...
.... also, the US is actually getting more factories but the jobs aren't coming back as there are more robots in play than ever before. Even if Trump manages to get playstations built in the states it's not gonna bring those jobs he promised back.
TO BE FAIR, THOUGH: I don't agree with these tariffs at all but they're trying to get companies to not do business in China, this (like a lot of trade wars) is NOT the way to go about it but it's more than just the current administration looking to raise tariffs just because...
.... also, the US is actually getting more factories but the jobs aren't coming back as there are more robots in play than ever before. Even if Trump manages to get playstations built in the states it's not gonna bring those jobs he promised back.
Fuck your "lulz." Gaming is already expensive, and the price you pay in Europe is the result of a high tax that ultimately benefits society. There's nothing funny about seeing other people who share your hobby suffer.
This is hilarious, conservative gamers getting dat small government they voted for
What could possibly go wrong
What could possibly go wrong