MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago'Build your own manufacturing': Trump-voting business owner stung by tariffs savaged after asking for ways to keep company afloatwww.dailydot.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1378arrow-down13
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minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up47·edit-22 days agoYes. Prospect for land. Work with local regulators on zoning and permits. spend millions. Hire architects, contractors. Go through several phases of designs and decisions. Spend millions. Research manufacturing equipment. Price sellers and eventually buy manufacturing equipment. Spend millions. Hire and train staff, costing millions. Power on manufacturing plant (costs millions). Pay employees (costing WAY more than it did overseas)… And then like, yeah, smooth sailing baby…?
minus-squareieatpillowtags@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up47arrow-down1·2 days agoAnd then the tariffs go away and boom! Rug pull!
minus-squareWiz@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoBankruptcy and golden parachute. Repeat.
minus-squarefake_meows@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 days agoHow about you do all that and then sell me your product, and then I turn around and sell it to the customer and make 5X the money you make?
Yes. Prospect for land. Work with local regulators on zoning and permits. spend millions.
Hire architects, contractors. Go through several phases of designs and decisions. Spend millions.
Research manufacturing equipment. Price sellers and eventually buy manufacturing equipment. Spend millions.
Hire and train staff, costing millions.
Power on manufacturing plant (costs millions).
Pay employees (costing WAY more than it did overseas)…
And then like, yeah, smooth sailing baby…?
And then the tariffs go away and boom! Rug pull!
Bankruptcy and golden parachute. Repeat.
How about you do all that and then sell me your product, and then I turn around and sell it to the customer and make 5X the money you make?