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minus-squarekibiz0r@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·3 days agoNow I’m no economist, so maybe I’m just ignorant here. But it seems to me that if there’s less stuff being shipped into a country, the people who live in that country are gonna end up having less stuff. And correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to recall that one the main goals of an economy is to… checks notes uh… “have stuff”. Is this the “winning” we were warned about?
minus-squareMDCCCLV@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoYou’ve forgotten supply and demand, if there’s less stuff the stuff that’s already here increases in value so it’s basically the same.
minus-squareMDCCCLV@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoYeah, it was meant to be a joke. Practically it will have unequal impact based on whether you can wait until tariffs are gone to buy something.
Now I’m no economist, so maybe I’m just ignorant here.
But it seems to me that if there’s less stuff being shipped into a country, the people who live in that country are gonna end up having less stuff.
And correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to recall that one the main goals of an economy is to… checks notes uh… “have stuff”.
Is this the “winning” we were warned about?
You’ve forgotten supply and demand, if there’s less stuff the stuff that’s already here increases in value so it’s basically the same.
My precious DDR4!
Inflation
Yeah, it was meant to be a joke. Practically it will have unequal impact based on whether you can wait until tariffs are gone to buy something.