• heartSagan5@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2 months

      I mean, unless they were expecting a “tarriff check.” I knew it wouldn’t show because grifters and liars are seldom honest.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    This entire scheme was a combination of market manipulation along with a universal price hike. A lot of very rich people got a lot richer. They got to engage in insider trading while massively increasing prices while pretending they had no choice.

  • RadiallyAxiomatic@lemmy.caEnglish
    2 months

    If the government wanted the people to have it they could have stipulated that or, better yet, given it directly to the people. You need a complicit government for ‘privatized profit; socialized loses’

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2 months

    People are butthurt about this but don’t have the willpower to not buy or use their products.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Sucks but it’s true. I’ve been trying to de-microsoft my household for over a year now. My partner won’t switch away from Windows, despite how fucking bad 11 is, and we’re still paying for office 365, even though I haven’t used MS office on a non-company computer for about 15 years at this point.

      I haven’t had anything sony in decades. Everything I got from them was overpriced trash that broke under very meager circumstances.

      Next on my chopping block is Google. Once the my phone is paid off, I’m switching to Graphene. Currently trying out open street maps, and trying to spin up my own email server so I can ditch my Gmail account.

    • Tja@programming.devEnglish
      2 months

      Or to vote for someone who has more than one word in their vocabulary: tariffs

  • racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2 months

    Yes, that’s correct, they are under no obligation. Obviously. It would be nice if they did that, but there is obviously no obligation.

  • nibbler@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2 months

    Unpopular opinion I guess, but sure. Why should they? They sold good for a price they deemed worthy, calculated their dues and risk, and customer bought it for this price.

    Companies have to maximize their profit.

    People should not be mad at those companies. Proper targets are: Those who created unlawful taxes, capitalism or the specific rules within capitalism or the (in this case) the USA.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    They must just need more time to do the right thing naturally without being legally obligated?