Trump reportedly considering important alteration to tariff plans
President-elect Donald Trump is considering a plan that still would apply tariffs to all nations but narrow the impact.
Between the lines: Tariffs are going to be used as a tool to transfer wealth from the bottom to the top. But there are some global players who want in on that action, so Trump is going to pick hand pick some winners in exchange for foreign policy.
I hate how accurate you probably are. Man people are fucking stupid. Like we can mostly sit here and figure out their stupidly transparent plans to fuck us, but most people are so aggressively against critical thinking that the 1% basically gets away with anything they want, no matter how fucking obvious their corruption is
What I don't understand is, if they want to be constantly making money and increasing profits, what are they going to do when they have ALL the money?
The lower class isn't going to have any money to spend, so the upper class will stop making money.
People won't be able to consume the unnecessary goods that the rich produce so their businesses will collapse, profits will stop rolling in, the economy will collapse, the dollar will crash, and all the money they worked so diligently to hoard will become useless.
So what exactly is their endgame?
They have no endgame. Most of them are old want want to grab what they can right now, with no regard to consequences.
Lot's of good responses here.
It's not just money they accumulate, but the capacity for violence. In the past when money wasn't enough to get what they want, they sponsor a coup or a harassment campaign or assassination. If they have a monopoly on (state) violence then they can just give their workers company scrip in place of money to spend at the company stores for essentials. They've done it in the past and this time around it might rhyme with crypto. As long as their police have their needs taken care of and get some extra perks, they will gladly bust skills to break those pesky union upstarts.
what exactly is their end game?
Slavery
Drone us all down and live happily ever after with their army of robot servants. Asimov wrote a book about the outcome. The Naked Sun.
Did you ever watch the movie Elysium? Because that. Except they go to Antarctica to escape climate change and build a big fuck off wall instead of a space station.
...until he talks to someone else or forgets or sundowns and then decides to do something else.
This dumb mother fucker could be goaded into going harder on the tariffs. He's going to cripple the economy over his ego, again.
That's what Putin wants
Sanction me?!? No. Sanction yourself.
What's the alteration? Taking it off the table and placing it in the garbage?
Companies/entities who donate will be exempt. I guarantee it. I'll eat a slice of cheese if I'm wrong.