• LobsterJim@slrpnk.net
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    5 days ago

    It’s not even necessarily unfucking either. When distributors and producers learn a new higher price consumers will pay, it’s very easy for them to default to that price. They can just increase prices to match what it was with tariffs and nothing changes except more profit for the producers. We consumers wouldn’t even realize it since we’re so far removed from the source.

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      Costs of goods hasn’t been a meaningful part of final cost of a product in a long time. Companies have been using minor cost increases to justify major price increases for a while now.

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        Regardless of whether it’s the producer or someone else along the supply chain, the prices are able to stay up because the consumer will pay the increase price. At the source or not, that’s my only point

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      Or that’s the point. Every crisis is an opportunity. Create crisis, create profit.