Nikon To Raise Camera Prices in the US Because of Tariffs (nikonusa.com) 124
Nikon will raise prices on its cameras and imaging products in the United States starting June 23, citing President Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese-made goods as the reason for what the company calls a "necessary price adjustment." The Japanese camera maker joins a growing list of photography equipment manufacturers implementing price increases, including Canon, Sony, Leica, and lens maker Sigma. Nikon told investors the tariffs could slash its profits by 10 billion yen ($70 million) in the upcoming fiscal year, though the company has not disclosed which specific products will see increases or by how much prices will rise.
LOL and they believed him (Score:5, Insightful)
LOL the suckers believed him when Trump said other countries would pay the tariffs. MAGAs are colossal dumbfucks, some of the most gullible people to walk the earth.
The news media lied (Score:4, Insightful)
Donald Trump represents a fundamental breakdown in every single institution meant to protect you. Congress, the courts, voters and finally the fourth estate, journalism.
Every single thing that was meant to prevent someone like Donald Trump from seizing power (any oligarch ghouls that actually are running things for the senile old man) has completely broken down.
Checks and balances are gone and bad things are going to start happening. Not right away, they still have to face at least one more round of midterm elections before the total collapse of democracy.
The worst in the Trump focused big beautiful bill is all set to take effect within a few weeks after the midterm elections. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the Donald Trump's policy is going to devastate the country and the people pushing it know it.
I think a lot of people here are agreeing with me right now but I don't think they'll be able to keep doing it once the propaganda starts up again. Once the sane washing kicks in before the midterms. I can't compete with a 24/7 blast of propaganda from every single angle
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I am unsure if you're personally aware of how much truth you just implied.
Let's see, shall we?
As you rightly said but not necessarily meant is that Trump is not the problem. Trum is the predator/parasite that used the corrupted state of the government to the fullest to maneuver himself into a position to his advantage and now that he has it, he is using it to the fullest.
Trump is like a fewer. Extremely uncomfortable but perhaps this discomfort finally gives the populace a kick in the pants. Who knows, he m
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I think they meant to write fever
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".....oligarch ghouls that actually are running things for the senile old man"
Apparently your memory doesn't even go back 6 months.
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Donald Trump didn't do these things, the Republican Party did these things. This is all part of a decades long effort to seize power.
Donald Trump is an opportunistic infection, Donald Trump is the clown face put on corruption that has existed since at least Nixon. Donald Trump's grotesque incompetence accelerates the demise of the country, but the problem doesn't go away if Trump does, it was never Trump in the first place.
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Both sides!
Enjoy your rubles, comrade.
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Never underestimate how many MAGAs are just fine with their potato phone camera from 2018. It's entirely why that whole "11-year-old baby girls don't need 30 dolls" thing resonated with them. They're used to getting by with less, so to them they're just imagining that the "libs" will be getting a taste of what it's like to not be able to afford a brand new iPad every year.
I've said it before, it won't feel real to them until half the shit in Walmart doubles in price.
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It's entirely why that whole "11-year-old baby girls don't need 30 dolls" thing resonated with them. They're used to getting by with less, ...
Well... Trump is fine with people having less (especially if it's because they gave it to him), but austerity is not for him. In his Memorial Day speech [yahoo.com] he said,
“Can you imagine I missed that four years? And now look what I have, I have everything - amazing the way things work out.”
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That and the Republicans are trying to make all porn illegal (it was in Project 2025, and they just introduced a bill to do it).
Just wait until all the right-wing incels have their only way of release taken away from them by dear leader.
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They're used to getting by with less
Yes and no. A not-insignificant portion of them drive $90,000 pickup trucks with another $5000 on the lift kit and new wheels.
Lots of them also have a fishing boat and all that gear.
They have gun collections that run into the tens-of-thousands.
They have huge 4K TVs and spend $200 a week at Chili's and TGI Fridays.
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Re:LOL and they believed him (Score:5, Insightful)
LOL the suckers believed him when Trump said other countries would pay the tariffs. MAGAs are colossal dumbfucks, some of the most gullible people to walk the earth.
And lazy. Even a cursory Google search for "tariff" (or "define tariff") shows it's a fee (tax) paid by the importer and often (usually) passed on to the consumer. Literally the first sentence of the Wikipedia page [wikipedia.org] says:
A tariff or import tax is a duty imposed by a national government, customs territory, or supranational union on imports of goods and is paid by the importer.
Idolatry doesn't have to include willful ignorance and blind loyalty / obedience.
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Because it damages their export markets?
Who does this stupidity work on? Your family?
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Then why are other countries upset about it?
Probably because they're filled with dumbfucks like you who couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel.
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Then why are other countries upset about it?
Probably because it artificially raises the price on their goods and people will think it's them and not Trump, and that hurts their reputations. The price increases may also push people to look for alternatives or simply not buy things, and that hurts their income. Tariffs, and especially these arbitrary and capricious ones, often force their country to add/increase tariffs raising prices on their imported items, and that hurts their income.
Tariffs can be a good tool for (a) protecting a domestic good
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And lazy. Even a cursory Google search
We live in a world of being told, not going and self educating. Even the people who say "do your own research" sign it off against a comment that implies "believe blindly what I tell you since I'm claiming to have done this research for you."
We don't Google search anything, we nod along to talking heads on TV muttering "yeah" to ourselves. We go to rallies "shouting lock her up" like a parrot without every knowing what or why.
Thought is dead, we've outsourced that process to others.
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And lazy. Even a cursory Google search
We live in a world of being told, not going and self educating. Even the people who say "do your own research" sign it off against a comment that implies "believe blindly what I tell you since I'm claiming to have done this research for you."
We don't Google search anything, we nod along to talking heads on TV muttering "yeah" to ourselves. We go to rallies "shouting lock her up" like a parrot without every knowing what or why.
Thought is dead, we've outsourced that process to others.
And yet the party who managed to lose the White House, lose the Senate, and lose the Supreme Court isn't some paragon of purity.
Not that anyone is listening, but in the least few years, the Democrats have endorsed rejection of science and biology that makes vaccine deniers look like Nobel laureates.
They have also been bit in the ass by people who they have told since birth they are the cause of all problems. With that group deciding that perhaps they might vote for a party that doesn't tell them they
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We live in a world of being told, not going and self educating. Even the people who say "do your own research" sign it off against a comment that implies "believe blindly what I tell you since I'm claiming to have done this research for you."
I've found that people who call you a sheep for accepting the thousands of years of scientific inquiry behind a particular subject (e.g. the shape of the planet we live on) do indeed perform their own research. The problem is twofold: (1) a general denial of and disbelief in valid authoritative information, which they label "indoctrination"; and (2) the source of their research material, which is generally other idiots posting on YouTube and TikTok. And for lots of them, you can throw in a generous dose of
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> MAGAs are colossal dumbfucks, some of the most gullible people to walk the earth.
That may be true. But they don't know it. And are very confident that it is the people on the other side that fall into that category. We are all very screwed!
We have elected leaders who are not just massively dumb, but exceptionally evil. The only hope of survival we have is if the dumb part stays dominant for the next three and a half years.
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Shut the fuck up, red hat shill.
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They're not paying all of it, but companies are definitely absorbing some of the costs involved.
Stop lying, fuckface. Go spread your horseshit on Twitter or Facebook where all your Nazi pedophile pals hang out.
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If they want to photograph something they use their smartphones, and those are exempt from tariffs.
Well, actually... [nbcnews.com]
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That article is from last month. I know it's really hard to keep up with Trump's tariff merry-go-round, but the latest word from the horse's mouth is that all smartphones manufactured overseas will be subject to a 25% tariff. At least, until Trump changes his mind again.
Here's Trump's post on Truth Social [truthsocial.com]
as an addendum to my post (Score:2)
Really, at this point we need a fucking stock ticker for all the various tariffs the way they keep constantly changing.
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Really, at this point we need a fucking stock ticker for all the various tariffs the way they keep constantly changing.
We have several; they're called the DOW, S&P, NASDAQ ...
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"I'm quite happy to pay more today so that our children have high paying jobs tomorrow."
No you're not. And you don't give a shit about "our children" at all.
"And if you buy the Wall Street BS and think tariffs don't work, why do other countries use them?"
Other countries don't apply blanket tariffs to entire countries and to literally every country on earth (except Russia, curiously). It's interesting that your misunderstandings so perfectly align with your politics, and that you post as an AC of course.
En
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This is, of course, an attack on the wealthy and people's stock portfolios. You know what? F your stock portfolio.
It's also an attack on every working stiff with a 401k or IRA account. So when you say "F your stock portfolio" you're also saying "F you for planning for your retirement."
I guess I can buy that American-made camera (Score:5, Funny)
What's it called? Kodak?
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The only cameras Kodak make are disposable film cameras.
They pretty much only exist to make film.
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Yeah, we're fucked.
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The only cameras Kodak make are disposable film cameras.
Funny thing about disposable cameras. Nearly 20 years ago, a company called Pure Digital had this crazy idea of selling one-time-use digital cameras and camcorders. I actually still have a few of them stashed away somewhere. Seemed like an idea that was doomed to failure and would take the company along with it, but Pure Digital actually had an unexpected success on their hands when they pivoted away from the single-use business model and released an updated version of their camcorder as the Flip Video.
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I guess they're extremely cheap. The camera gets returned to them so they can refurbish parts of it and recycle the plastic.
Maybe they reuse some of them
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Kodak makes PixPro (compact cameras) at least since 2014 https://kodakpixpro.com/ [kodakpixpro.com]
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But in any waste I agree with you, they only exist to make film. I was amazed just yesterday visiting an electronics shop and next to TVs and modern cameras they still had a set of Kodak disposable cameras and films. I really wonder who still needs disposable cameras in a physical shop.
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I really wonder who still needs disposable cameras in a physical shop.
It's very common to find a pile of disposable cameras at any wedding. Guests use them and leave them for the happy couple to develop.
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Great idea indeed. Though I just noticed, the very cheapest digital cameras now cost less than a Kodak disposable film camera.
(They're no more than a webcam with a button and some storage.)
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You mean the JK Imaging produced Kodak branded cameras?
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Yes indeed. Many brands today just print a sticker on white label. Coincidently I was looking up Kodak and I found:
* in Europe, the "Kodak", "Agfa" and "NASA" (yes that one) brands are licenced to "The GT company", a small operation based in Paris.
* under the "GT Cie" management, Kodak and Agfa market a variety of products, shown at websites like https://www.kodak.gtcie.com/en... [gtcie.com]
I was coincidently looking to buy a digital frame, and easily found Agfa and Kodak options in my usual online shops. I found:
* the
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The only cameras Kodak make are disposable film cameras.
Actually, Koday makes a fairly wide range of digital cameras, [kodak.com] including one (PIXPRO Astro Zoom AZ901-BK) with a 20 mp sensor and a 22mm - 1980mm (35mm full frame equivalent) zoom range. I was surprised to find this - apparently they do a crappy job of marketing.
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Kodak don't make them, another company does and pays for the name.
Look at the fine print
JK Imaging Ltd. manufactures and sells the above digital cameras.
The Kodak trademark, logo and trade dress are used under license by JK Imaging Ltd.
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Kodak dSLR cameras, such as they were, relied on Nikon's lenses - they licensed the "F mount" from Nikon.
I think they used Nikon's sensors too, but I could be wrong on that.
Re:I guess I can buy that American-made camera (Score:4, Interesting)
Kodak actually produced their own sensors for a while - including the full-frame 18-megapixel KAF-18500 used in the Leica M9.
But to go back to that... would only require an updated fab... and then all of the components needed to integrate... Cameras are complicated as is their supply chain, tariffs are unfortunately not very sophisticated...
Hence why Nikon has to raise prices, as they have a lot of complexity just to try to guess what the new price might be.
It looks to me - with these new prices - that the same lens is now considerably cheaper in Sweden than in the US - and I can tell you as a Swedish resident and a grey haired photographer - this is the first time I have ever seen that.
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Kodak also produced cameras that used Canon lenses. And Nikon didn't make sensors during that time.
I am glad (Score:1)
I am glad that I am mostly done buying expensive shit for a while....now that I just bought a bunch of shit in the last month, intending to get in on some stuff I have wanted for a while (ranging up to a very long time), before tariffs hit.
Sorry for anyone having to buy shit with tariff pricing included.
Everything is going to get more expensive (Score:3, Insightful)
You need to start preparing for at least a 15% pay cut in the form of taxes. In exchange for that you will probably see a 1 to 2% tax cut. Also the trillions in tax cuts for billionaires is going to devastate our economy and the bond markets putting us at Best in a deep deep recession.
The Republicans didn't feel strong enough about their voter suppression to do it before the midterms so all the really really nasty shit is scheduled right after them. So you
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The bad times are here now.
But at least there's AI tools to make catchy songs about the bad times. Like taxing the penguins [youtube.com], or the one you inspired with that silly line about waiting for a future where you can buy dog food online. [youtube.com]
Just think of it as the modern version of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. I can have a machine do the fiddlin' for me. We sure do live in interesting times.
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I saw that Walmart had increased some toy prices from $15 to $25. Crippling, massive inflation.
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Serious question. Here in Canada we've always been required to show ID in order to vote, for as long as I can remember (and I'm an old geezer). So the discussion going on in the US about showing ID being voter suppression is just odd to me. It seems to be the democrats who object to people being required to show ID. In Canada, being required to show ID doesn't stop the Liberals (our left of center party) from winning the majority of elections. What is it about showing ID that is so objectionable to the
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Serious question. Here in Canada we've always been required to show ID in order to vote, for as long as I can remember (and I'm an old geezer). So the discussion going on in the US about showing ID being voter suppression is just odd to me. It seems to be the democrats who object to people being required to show ID.
The ID thing is one of those dopey things that keeps coming up. It's kind of a pre-made excuse for losing. I've had a voter ID that I got when I first registered to vote back in the dark ages. Poor thing is all tattered at the edges, but I don't get why it is a problem to have it.
I don't often have to show it at my local polling place, because they all know me. So I sign in on the needed book, then vote.
What is amusing is how we are at the point that when the presidential candidate for either party lo
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Each US state makes up its own election laws pretty much independently. An exception was a federal law that required certain states with a history of voter suppression to get federal approval if they wanted to change their election system. And that history of voter suppression is really why voter id laws can be an issue.
Most US states already require voters to have ID. Restricting the kind of ID that counts can result in voter suppression though. In Canada the requirements are pretty uniform (completely so
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Well, we don't buy that much in general.
It we live well below our means, almost on half our income, so we should be ok.
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You are correct about everything except the Democrats. The Democrats are old, lazy. selfish, and wanting to maintain the status quo that brought us here. Voting Democrats and voting out the Republicans will change nothing other than the timeline.
Why do you still cling to the hope that the Democrats will save anyone but themselves (not you!)?
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I am glad that I am mostly done buying expensive shit for a while....
And I'm glad I bought my EV before the tax credits are expected to go up in a cloud of coal rollin' smoke. Sorry folks, I tried, but living in Florida my vote didn't even move the needle. Majority of the people in this state are totally on board with the dumpster fire that is MAGA, so that's democracy for ya.
Re: I am glad (Score:1)
guess. I want Republican to try to get Trump if the ticket. But what you going to do when the Democrats put him on the ticket thinking they would win by default.
Your vote would have probably meant more in the Republican primares as well.
Now that the DNC elevated and all of these these far right candidates to see success, I dern to read commemts like these pretending that you vote and the DNC didn't put hom to there.
Question about manufacturing in America (Score:1)
I see so many comments that manufacturing can't come back to the us. Why are so many people here convinced we should no make anything in the country anymore?
Behaviorally y'all speak like manufacturing is ashithole job. I'm living in Japan right now and it still has a lot of it's own manufacturing. Do you consider this is a shithole county? That it is below Americans?
Whenever I see a Trump article, it is like the people of slashdot fall to the intelligence of a 6 year old and can't have a proper discussion.
Re:Question about manufacturing in America (Score:5, Insightful)
Why are so many people here convinced we should no make anything in the country anymore?
I don't think "should" is the correct term, here: I think "can" is more appropriate. Companies, under the whip of Wall Street, demand monstrous quarterly profits, while American workers demand monstrous paychecks to fund their ever increasing standard of living. I mean, are you really even a man if you don't have a $100k boosted truck, towing a boat, or an RV - or both - and a mansion to drive home to? Well, generally, you can't have both monstrous profits and monstrous paychecks. So if you want to bring manufacturing back to America, you have to reduce costs - particularly labor - to justify the effort, or manufacturers won't bother. Lower labor cost and resulting increased profit is why manufacturing left in the first place, particularly under Reagan. Note that I'm not even touching environmental issues, here: just labor. So, if manufacturing could be done here, it probably would.
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Why are so many people here convinced we should no make anything in the country anymore?
I don't think "should" is the correct term, here: I think "can" is more appropriate. Companies, under the whip of Wall Street, demand monstrous quarterly profits, while American workers demand monstrous paychecks to fund their ever increasing standard of living. I mean, are you really even a man if you don't have a $100k boosted truck, towing a boat, or an RV - or both - and a mansion to drive home to? Well, generally, you can't have both monstrous profits and monstrous paychecks. So if you want to bring manufacturing back to America, you have to reduce costs - particularly labor - to justify the effort, or manufacturers won't bother. Lower labor cost and resulting increased profit is why manufacturing left in the first place, particularly under Reagan. Note that I'm not even touching environmental issues, here: just labor. So, if manufacturing could be done here, it probably would.
Said monstrous pay cheques are not enough to support ever increasing consumerism... So easy credit stepped in to keep the ball moving.
Now people are requiring ever more money each month just to meet their credit obligations and in many cases, to meet the minimum obligations and not to pay it down.
It used to be that "living pay day to pay day" was considered a bad thing, that's now a step up for many people as they're living debt repayment to debt repayment. As their entire pay goes on servicing their
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Well, generally, you can't have both monstrous profits and monstrous paychecks.
Both were possible in the 70s. The working class was doing well and the wealthy, while nowhere near as wealthy as they are now, were doing pretty well as well.
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Why are so many people here convinced we should no make anything in the country anymore?
I don't think "should" is the correct term, here: I think "can" is more appropriate. Companies, under the whip of Wall Street, demand monstrous quarterly profits, while American workers demand monstrous paychecks to fund their ever increasing standard of living. I mean, are you really even a man if you don't have a $100k boosted truck, towing a boat, or an RV - or both - and a mansion to drive home to? Well, generally, you can't have both monstrous profits and monstrous paychecks. So if you want to bring manufacturing back to America, you have to reduce costs - particularly labor - to justify the effort, or manufacturers won't bother. Lower labor cost and resulting increased profit is why manufacturing left in the first place, particularly under Reagan. Note that I'm not even touching environmental issues, here: just labor. So, if manufacturing could be done here, it probably would.
There's an incorrect assumption underlying this whole argument: The assumption that the US is not a manufacturer. The truth is that the US, with 4% of the world's population, is the world's second largest manufacturer. That's actually not bad at all.
Maybe what people want is for America to reclaim its spot as the world's #1 manufacturer, a distinction we held for much of the 20th century. If so, that's fine and even a worthy goal, but it's simply wrong to claim that slipping from #1 to #2 means that we n
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So if you want to bring manufacturing back to America, you have to reduce costs - particularly labor
There may be a surprisingly large number of people who can afford that lifted truck and boat; but, the vast majority are dead broke and do not have a truck, much less a lifted truck... and a boat? Maybe they could paddle around in a styrofoam ice chest?
What I am hearing you say is that the people who are on the very edge of survivability (I love making up my own words) have to try and do that with even fewer resources.
Why doesn't anyone EVER propose that MANAGEMENT take a fucking pay cut instead of labor? T
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I see so many comments that manufacturing can't come back to the us.
I think you'll find that few Americans see our dependance on countries like China as a good thing. The disagreement primarily comes down how to address the issue with minimal disruption to our existing supply chains and economy. The MAGA way is to just throw a big ol' monkey wrench into the works and hope the free hand of the market cleans up the mess.
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"Dependence". Look, maaan. The little red squiggly that your browser inserts under your words means that they aren't words. It isn't that difficult to understand your spelling checker.
Your argument that every country should be self-sufficient is woefully shortsighted. Let's continue with your notion and suggest that every state should be self-sufficient, for why should Maine have to depend on North Carolina? But, let's not stop there. I mean, your community in Bangor can surely not rely on products from Fai
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"Dependence". Look, maaan. The little red squiggly that your browser inserts under your words means that they aren't words.
Krome haz teh abselute werst spiel chequer unlease yew ehnable teh feeture ware ti sendz everythang yew right too Googul.
Your argument that every country should be self-sufficient is woefully shortsighted. Let's continue with your notion and suggest that every state should be self-sufficient
Trade relationships between states in a union are generally more stable than international trade relations. Then, even among international trade relations, some countries are obviously higher risk trading partners. A realistic approach is evaluating which trading partners are the most likely to leave you holding the bag when something goes wrong, and having a domestic contingency plan w
Re:Question about manufacturing in America (Score:5, Insightful)
I see so many comments that manufacturing can't come back to the us. Why are so many people here convinced we should not make anything in the country anymore?
We could, but most things would probably be (much?) more expensive, mainly due to labor and environmental laws. In addition, it takes time and money to build production facilities and domestic supply chains -- doesn't do any good to build domestically, if all the parts and/or raw materials are imported (and tariffed). Production facilities couldn't be built/ramped up to scale before Trump leaves office; if a Democrat is elected (or even a level-headed Republican), the tariffs will probably go away and foreign goods will again be less expensive than domestically produced versions. Companies don't want to accept that financial risk.
Also, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick insisted on his April 6th Face the Nation appearance that President Trump’s tariffs will “stay in place” and will result in things like “the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones” coming to the US. He acknowledged that “it’s gonna be automated,” which is just one of the reasons more manufacturing may not mean more jobs.
So either millions and millions of U.S. workers will be screwing in tiny iPhone screws (fun!) or those tasks will be automated. Neither of those options sound that great for American workers or that they pay well. Of course this Administration sees most of us a disposable serfs, which explains the attempted rollback of labor and environment protections and health insurance access/affordability.
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I see so many comments that manufacturing can't come back to the us. Why are so many people here convinced we should not make anything in the country anymore?
We could, but most things would probably be (much?) more expensive, mainly due to labor and environmental laws. In addition, it takes time and money to build production facilities and domestic supply chains -- doesn't do any good to build domestically, if all the parts and/or raw materials are imported (and tariffed). Production facilities couldn't be built/ramped up to scale before Trump leaves office; if a Democrat is elected (or even a level-headed Republican), the tariffs will probably go away and foreign goods will again be less expensive than domestically produced versions. Companies don't want to accept that financial risk.
Also, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick insisted on his April 6th Face the Nation appearance that President Trump’s tariffs will “stay in place” and will result in things like “the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones” coming to the US. He acknowledged that “it’s gonna be automated,” which is just one of the reasons more manufacturing may not mean more jobs.
So either millions and millions of U.S. workers will be screwing in tiny iPhone screws (fun!) or those tasks will be automated. Neither of those options sound that great for American workers or that they pay well. Of course this Administration sees most of us a disposable serfs, which explains the attempted rollback of labor and environment protections and health insurance access/affordability.
Manufacturing in developed economies is extremely automated. When factories do come to western nations, they don't bring thousands of high paying jobs for the unskilled... they bring a few high paying jobs for the highly skilled.
But I digress, there are already a load of low paying jobs for low skilled individuals. Americans, by and large, do not want them. They'd rather not work at all than take a job cleaning, gardening, working in an abattoir, packaging and distribution, et al. These jobs in most west
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Japan won't be making all their own stuff for long given their birthrates and their fear of foreigners. This is exactly where the U.S. is headed except that we'll have the Maggots out there telling us how we should all enjoy our new lower standard of living.
Re: Question about manufacturing in America (Score:2)
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> I see so many comments that manufacturing can't come back to the us.
Nobody is stopping anybody from building stuff here. It is just not practical or viable in most cases. You can use tariffs to try and force people. But even at 25%, it is cheaper to get products built elsewhere. And don't forget, tariffs are a tax on people. And it is a regressive tax that disproportionally benefits the wealthy.
I don't think this on again/off again tariff policy will bring any significant manufacturing back to the US.
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I see so many comments that manufacturing can't come back to the us. Why are so many people here convinced we should no make anything in the country anymore?
For the same reason you believe we can: Complete ignorance to the complexity of the topic of manufacturing and what is being done in the USA. For those of us paying attention we really question why you think manufacturing has left the USA. The USA has a huge manufacturing base, it just targets a different product category than bottom tier garbage that it outsources elsewhere. The USA focuses on this category for the same reason other countries don't: what is manufactured is based on the quality of life in a
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I see so many comments that manufacturing can't come back to the us. Why are so many people here convinced we should no make anything in the country anymore?
Behaviorally y'all speak like manufacturing is ashithole job.
A lot of people have been raised to believe that manufacturing work is for stupid people. That's a big part of the Student loan issue, where people who've been raised to believe that having a degree, any degree, is the mark of a superior ubermenschen.
I'm living in Japan right now and it still has a lot of its own manufacturing.
Interior manufacturing is a very important strategic matter. A country that cannot build its own tanks will be subjugated by one that can.
Whenever I see a Trump article, it is like the people of slashdot fall to the intelligence of a 6 year old and can't have a proper discussion.
When Americans come on to TV and they say they want to drop their citizenship because of the current pressident... it makes you look like you don't support democracy and you are not trying to understand the people who got him there. Itsso embarrasing to watchin its own way.
Yes, it is embarrassing. After the recent curbstomping the Democrats received, I did analysis of how such a thing could ha
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Thank you for the reply Ol!
I'm putting this in the form of questions to force some critical thinking. Even then, a lot the responses I see are canned from the writers prefered media. When people are stuck in vacuum, asking questions helps more tham telling answers.
Speaking of questions - I do ask a lot of them. What I find interesting is the response.
Some people get quite angry. That's telling me I'm onto something, and have put them in an awkward position.
What I really enjoy is a thoughtful response delivered without rancor. That really makes me think. Sometimes I even change my mind!
And we see a lot of the angered responses in here, even when I offer citations to support my various theses. Watch what happens here - as a test case.
The Democrats got hung up on s
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US manufacturing is at an all-time high. The only stuff that can "come back" are the low end manufacturing jobs that got outsourced. Japan doesn't do those either: they concentrate on the high-value manufacturing and outsource the low end stuff just like the US does.
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Thank you for the reply!
There is definitely some truth to this, but please let me give some counter arguments. You didn't really back up your claims, so there is not very much substance to your assertion at best, and at worst its misleading..
To be honest, China's dominance has also hollowed out Japan's ability to compete in this area. It's several years behind the hollowing out of the U.S., but it's definitely happening.
I’m currently working with a client that cuts steel blocks, and the flood of chea
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Forgive me. Here, I've typed "US manufacturing output by year" into Google for you.
https://www.macrotrends.net/gl... [macrotrends.net]
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Thank you for the reply!
From what I know, robots are heavily used in car manufacturing and in places like Amazon warehouses. Amazon currently employs 1 million people in these warehouses (again according to the numbers I'm seeing.) I think there is wide breadth in needed skill even when involved with automation.
There is a known skill gap for finding people for manufacturing in the US that I do think is correctable if we put the effort in. What I don't understand is why we don't utilize things like H1B vi
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Don't wake Yosemite Yam. (Score:1)
Companies should just quietly raise prices, otherwise they will catch the attention of the Tinted Toddler who will try to punish them.
Wait until everyone else rises prices such that there are too many targets for Don to froth about.
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I think he'll find time to froth about every company raising prices, regardless of how many of them do, and he won't care whether he correct or incorrectly labels any company as raising prices....just companies he doesn't like because his Fruit Loops looked particularly odd that morning.
The only thing he has to worry about is
(1) dementia: if he doesn't already have it...."trophy wives", "Russia didn't invade Ukraine", "Hannibal Lector", "migran
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Joe allegedly had an "auto-pen", so Don may invent the "auto-froth".
If and when Don gets dementia, it will be very hard to tell the difference.
Raised in the US or worldwide? (Score:2)
What I've seen in these past weeks is that electronic brands have raised their prices worldwide because of the US tariffs, not just in the US.
So, in effect, the rest of the world is subsidising the brands' US customers.
I suppose this means that the brands think that these tariffs are only going to be temporary. And while they are in effect, they would do what they can so as to not lose their US customers to competitors -- competitors doing the same thing.
What is Nikon actually doing now? I would like to kno
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Saving Face. (Score:1)
If Nikon is raising prices because of tariffs on Chinese goods, care to explain why they’re still calling themselves a Japanese maker?
Lying photographer, always gets exposed.
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No, it's just ambiguous syntax as usual. Nikon is being described as "Japanese" and a "camera maker". Which is correct - Nikon is headquartered in Japan, and makes cameras. They're not claiming to be a "Japanese-camera maker", i.e. a maker of Japanese cameras, which they are not. To be precise, they're a "Japanese Chinese-camera maker" - a Japanese company that makes Chinese cameras.
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No, it's just ambiguous syntax as usual. Nikon is being described as "Japanese" and a "camera maker". Which is correct - Nikon is headquartered in Japan, and makes cameras. They're not claiming to be a "Japanese-camera maker", i.e. a maker of Japanese cameras, which they are not. To be precise, they're a "Japanese Chinese-camera maker" - a Japanese company that makes Chinese cameras.
Let's ask Hermes about the value-add of ambiguous syntax when putting a price tag on a Birkin bag in 2026.
My comment was less tongue-in-cheek than you might assume. As every "luxury" brand maker who was just caught red-handed will likely be forced to attest in quarterly financial statements. The market for bullshitting the ultra-wealthy with Chinese-made goods, is buried in lawsuits now.
Let me sum up your wordsmithing: A Japanese company who used to take pride in manufacturing in Japan, doesn't anymore.
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Canon was doing better than Nikon in the world of digital cameras / lenses.
As a result, it would be foolish of Nikon to give people even more reason to jump ship and switch to another brand.
( Especially if Canon wasn't raising prices for the same reasons )
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Found the red hat jonesing for his OxyContin