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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldA 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
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    17 days ago

    Only $4000 for the entry model. That’s how much it costs once the tariffs on the semiconductors that you simply cannot produce in the country for at least 10 more years even if you tried has been covered, the salaries high enough to motivate people to willingly work the assembly lines now that immigrant workers are gone, and the markup needed to cover the cost of completely creating an entire supply chain from scratch as well as paying back the insane debt that results from the outrageous high risk investments this would require and that frankly no investor would want to touch with a 10 foot pole.










  • Yes, that and also Trump seems to count on his supporters not understanding who will end up paying for those tariffs by misleading them into believing other countries will pay for those tariffs for them.

    Meanwhile Canadian elected officials have been very upfront about the rough times ahead. But unlike Americans, Canadians are motivated, united and have a strong will to weather the storm.

    The way Trump does it also hurts his own country’s economy even more because he has made it clear that no country is safe from unpredictable tariffs. Investors hate unpredictability. They’ll take their money elsewhere. And on top of that he’s doing it with multiple countries at the same time, which is an even dumber thing to do because the effects of all the countries retaliatory tariffs will be cumulative.







  • If I ever got tired of my car and wanted to burn it down somewhere safe and legal to do it, I’d do it the same way as it is usually done for any kind of car: break the window, douse the inside with a flammable liquid and light it up. I’d also have to be very careful while lighting it because if the flammable fumes have time to build up inside before being lit, it could explode and injure the person lighting it.

    Additionally, if anything Fail videos have taught me is that fooling around with flammable liquids and fire can quickly go very bad. I would also have a friend with a natural fiber blanket nearby just in case.