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73 points

People that can still afford stuff will be so cool. The hippest tech, biggest cars and newest kicks, everything will be uber exclusive. This is good for america because reasons.

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This is good for america because reasons.

People with lifted pickup trucks can now go into even more debt, so they can flex on the “poors” (while complaining about their “economic anxiety”).

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Not to worry. If gas is a little cheaper while they fill up their tanks at the pump, they’ll be happy to pay [insert car financing company here] exorbitant amounts of money and think they’re winning

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I think car industry regulations (ratio of gas per weight or something) are one of the incentives for production of such trucks. So again - this may eventually get better if “deregulation” stops being a curse. Not with Trump, of course.

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Especially because every grift that trump has made, his shoes and the like, were all made internationally. Wonder who will pay for those tarrifs when he does the same?

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Thing is all that crap can be stitched together by 12 year olds in Alabama instead of 12 year olds in China.

I don’t think he can really comprehend a chip fabrication plant costing 10 times his entire net worth. He probably thinks that what they make in “Silicon Valley”…

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I recently saw gamers nexus’ Intel tour. It was like seeing a sci-fi movie, it’s incredible how advanced the stuff they do is. I also found it incredible how much it takes to build a chip… It takes about 2-3 months from wafer to chip.

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That’s true. For us to compete we just need the same in the US! We just need uhhhh

https://www.tsmc.com/english/aboutTSMC/TSMC_Fabs

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It won’t be paid from his net worth or from even the government’s budget.

It will, if it happens, be expected to redeem costs based on the demand of the whole USA, which is, ahem, an obscene amount of money.

Anyway, you don’t have to start with something like TSMC. Producing MCs for home appliances is already very cool.

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If that is truly their plan, they are dumber than we fucking figured.

If a billionaire wants to buy a swimming pool, he needs a considerable amount of other people to be able to afford swimming pools or it it becomes impossible for him to get one at all eventually.

To have a swimming pool, there needs to be an industry of specialized labororers who can manufacture and install. There has to be electricians who specialize in mixing water and electricity. There has to be people working the factories where the chlorine gets manufactured and bottled.

This is true for every product that billionaires consume. You really gotta think that these people with all this wealth would have people on the payroll pointing this out to them.

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That is more of a millionaire problem. A billionaire can afford to fly the specialists and the materials in from Europe.

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Party officials in USSR kinda managed to keep such an industry for their nice things. It’s not as complex as computers.

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3 points

He’s fixing the economy, duh!!!

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This will boost the American job market and increase manufacturing ability.

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4 points

Yes, I cannot wait for America to start making Sony and Nintendo consoles. Well done Mr. Trump!!!

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This is good. Same way forest fires can be good.

But those people thinking they’ll be the elite don’t quite realize how exactly.

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