Prices going up

[Dublin ohio]

Anyway, there was no cashier person. I did it on a screen in ordering. Also not many people there eating.
Haven't been there for a long time and I see McD is cutting labor costs since CA has $20/hr for fast food to stay competitive.

They have the same thing here. AI assisted ordering and we don't have the $20 minimum wage

 

[Fernando]

J. D. Vance Stopped Talking About Eggs

Last year, the vice president made prices a central theme of the GOP election campaign. Now that eggs cost more than ever, he’s gone quiet.

www.theatlantic.com

J. D. Vance Stopped Talking About Eggs​

Last year, the vice president made prices a central theme of the GOP election campaign. Now that eggs cost more than ever, he’s gone quiet.

We used to hear a lot about eggs from J. D. Vance. On the campaign trail, he talked about them constantly: how his kids were nuts for them, and how, thanks to the failed policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, omelets were ruined for everyone.

For Republicans in 2024, eggs were a convenient shorthand for the squeeze of inflation, and nobody was more committed to this commiseration --- or more devoted to the egg as a breakfast concept --than Donald Trump's running mate. You had to respect Vance's dedication to the project. Here was a man who seemed to have a genuine, Gaston-level passion for effs. But now, as egg prices rise again --- to historic highs --- that shell has cracked.

For a man who so loved the egg, and so reviled any egg-related cost hurdle, Vance has been conspicuously silent as egg prices have continued to increase under President Trump.

 

[J Grant]

Because of globalization, Americans were able to buy cheap prices.
This efficiency in cutting costs for companies to go to low labor countries have allowed the poor in this country to buy many goods like clothes, TVs, and iphones at affordable prices.
With tariffs and push to build in high labor America, the high prices will hurt the poor the most.

Either way, the working poor and middle class got screwed.

Paying $100 less for a flat-screen TV did not compensate for the loss of jobs with the "efficiency" of moving manufacturing offshore. It was total greed on the part of American, company, and it empowered China as a world power and military might. These greedy companies still won't manufacture here at scale because of tariffs - they will just drive up prices and make our former allies, such as Canada, distrust us and seek trade and imports elsewhere. e.

Corporate tax cuts should have been tied into returning plants and jobs here, but TRiump just cut the crpate rate with no incentives or punishments tied in - it starved the revenue, adding to the deficit last time and will continue to do so this time.

 

[Fernando]

America needs to realize that we are not a manufacturing country. America can't compete in the world market in manufacturing unless more robotics. The costs are lower elsewhere in the world.
America does other things better and we should move to those "higher knowledge" industries.

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

Either way, the working poor and middle class got screwed.

Paying $100 less for a flat-screen TV did not compensate for the loss of jobs with the "efficiency" of moving manufacturing offshore. It was total greed on the part of American, company, and it empowered China as a world power and military might. These greedy companies still won't manufacture here at scale because of tariffs - they will just drive up prices and make our former allies, such as Canada, distrust us and seek trade and imports elsewhere. e.

Corporate tax cuts should have been tied into returning plants and jobs here, but TRiump just cut the crpate rate with no incentives or punishments tied in - it starved the revenue, adding to the deficit last time and will continue to do so this time.

America needs to realize that we are not a manufacturing country. America can't compete in the world market in manufacturing unless more robotics. The costs are lower elsewhere in the world.
America does other things better and we should move to those "higher knowledge" industries.

https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/here-s-a-list-of-tech-giants-that-have-pledged-over-1-trn-in-us-investment-125022600148_1.html

Here's a list of tech giants that have pledged over $1 trn in US investment​

Below are the major tech investments announced since Trump took office for a second time​

I am not going to past the entire article. Just read it.

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

MSN

www.msn.com

Big Economic Win: Trump Secures Foreign Investment That Dwarfs What Biden Bragged About​

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Paying $100 less for a flat-screen TV did not compensate for the loss of jobs with the "efficiency" of moving manufacturing offshore.

In the 70s and early 80s Sears bought TVs made in Arkansas and the Japanese bought the company. The sellers were so proud of the huge quality control portion of the production they demonstrated it to the Japanese buyers, who were unimpressed. Once they took over, they went down the line and said, take your time and do it right, don't send it down the line if it is not working. Within literally days, the reject rates were so low, that they started laying off or shifting to line work, all those "quality control" people whose job was to make the TV actually work once it was built. We shot ourselves in the foot in the 70s with poor production methods, and that applied to cars (the Japanese took that market by storm), electronics, and about anything else that was electrical.

America needs to realize that we are not a manufacturing country.

The only reason we cannot compete is labor cost is high while many Asian (China in particular) are subsidizing such, using slave (prison) labor, and exploiting children as well as paying low wages. We (our technology and plants) are otherwise more productive and efficient.

 

[Fernando]

In the 70s and early 80s Sears bought TVs made in Arkansas and the Japanese bought the company. The sellers were so proud of the huge quality control portion of the production they demonstrated it to the Japanese buyers, who were unimpressed. Once they took over, they went down the line and said, take your time and do it right, don't send it down the line if it is not working. Within literally days, the reject rates were so low, that they started laying off or shifting to line work, all those "quality control" people whose job was to make the TV actually work once it was built. We shot ourselves in the foot in the 70s with poor production methods, and that applied to cars (the Japanese took that market by storm), electronics, and about anything else that was electrical.

The only reason we cannot compete is labor cost is high while many Asian (China in particular) are subsidizing such, using slave (prison) labor, and exploiting children as well as paying low wages. We (our technology and plants) are otherwise more productive and efficient.

Where you get your lies? How much prisoners can affect their low wages. Same as exploiting children since fewer children are being born in China.
China is king in manufacturing at low cost and America should accept that.

 

[Dublin ohio]

Where you get your lies? How much prisoners can affect their low wages. Same as exploiting children since fewer children are being born in China.
China is king in manufacturing at low cost and America should accept that.

Do the math

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1 USD = 7.2511 CNY Mar 06, 2025 00:00 UTC​

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China: per capita disposable income 2024| Statista

In 2024, the average annual per capita disposable income of households in China amounted to approximately 41,300 yuan.

www.statista.com

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[Fernando]

Do the math

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1 USD = 7.2511 CNY Mar 06, 2025 00:00 UTC​

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China: per capita disposable income 2024| Statista

In 2024, the average annual per capita disposable income of households in China amounted to approximately 41,300 yuan.

www.statista.com

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I can't read the gibberish. What is your point?