Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation
grue@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m still only a little over halfway through the documentary, but here are the main new things I’ve learned so far:
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Even if all the uncertainty and instability stops right now (which it won’t, short of Trump being removed from office entirely), we are going to be absolutely fucked in 3-6 months not only with higher prices, but probably also outright shortages just because every business will have a big gap in their procurement pipeline due to the couple of weeks of uncertainty that already happened.
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Everything about this seems almost designed to murder small businesses.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Those with enough capital backing, resources and funds can take the hit, maybe cut some expenses, shedding crocodile tears about how terrible the economic impact of this trade war has affected them while dispassionately watching scores of no-longer-employees pack their things and try to figure out how to tell their kids that the promised trip next month they’d been looking forward to all year is cancelled.
Eranziel@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Kind of splitting hairs, but a company that can let go of “scores” of employees and still exist is not a small business.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
That was my point, actually, expanding on the previous point of the policy being designed to kill small businesses. The big corps can do that, pretending to be ever so regretful about the firings, while small ones face insolvency.