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A reminder that tariffs are actually a thing.
A 25% tariff on a $600 item is $150. Even taking into account the tariff applying to the import cost instead, sales margins aren't the majority of the cost. The tariff is applying to the wholesale cost to import the product, sales margins are then added on top of that.
I haven't seen a single thing from AMD about whether the MSRP was set taking the tariffs into account or not. If not, then that should only apply to the devices imported before that went into effect. And everything after would be at least 25% more, more like 30% taking into account sales margins are based AFTER import costs.
Yep Trump added terrifs on gpus last term too
When you have thousands of possible upstream causes, but the end consumer effectively only sees and cares about two (availability, and price) then of course it's all going to look the same. When you have a fever, cough, and shortness of breath it could be COVID, or pneumonia, or influenza, or just a cold, looks pretty similar when you have limited symptoms to work with.
Especially to the perpetually online edgelords on places like lemmy and reddit. Might as well just accept any and all conspiracy theories without evidence as well while we're at it, because they're apparently just as valid as plausible economic reasons when there is limited data. I miss when the tinfoil hat people without a shred of evidence were pushed out of society instead of being given the same platform as evidence-based conclusions.
What the hell are you ranting about? It's common knowledge that he did last term as well.