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So, now they get shipped back and forth across the Pacific...twice? Wow. So much "winning".
Raw Materials -> America: +Tariffs
Incomplete chips -> Taiwan: ++Tariffs
Complete chips -> America: +++Tariffs
Seems rather wasteful.
imagine how much easier it would be if the world weren't flat
It would be so much easier if the world was inside out. Then we could just drop the pears to each country.
This is of course drawing lines on a projected globe, rather than straight lines on a round globe. But the reality is not much better—Argentina is almost exactly on the other side of the planet from Thailand. 🫣 Thailand's antipode is just off the coast of Peru, so very close to Argentina.
Really, really irresponsible use of resources. Especially if these pears are shipped by sea. Then it's even worse.
The fact that the result can apparently still manage to show up in a store cheaper than peaches grown and packed locally just goes to show how fucked up the economics in Argentina and Thailand are.
The economy of the entire globe is designed to siphon money into the West. Third world nations largely aren’t responsible for the failures of their economies, it’s mostly because the West is doing imperialism.
Good luck trying to convince people in the West to downgrade their lifestyle. Talk about not flying to some remote island off the coast of Africa or Asia for vacation and you're looked at like a fucking heathen. Revolution cannot come soon enough.
Especially if these pears are shipped by sea. Then it’s even worse.
Shipping via sea is the cheapest and least greenhouse gas producing way to ship things. With the only exception being pipes, which are significantly better than ships on both fronts. However, we shouldn't be shipping peaches via pipe. ;p
Transoceanic pipe cargo lines could be nice. Vacuuming cargo out, pushing in. Like trains, except with no life support concerns.
Someone is dropping pennies in the vacuum tubes again! Now the whole thing is jammed and we've got cargo backed up all the way to Guam!!
And yes Bob, we all know it was you!
So just the easy part lmao
Driving up the cost
lol. Good luck trying to train American workers to build such microchips. It’s not gonna happen. They won’t work 24 hour a day.
The US produces a lot of chips, they just aren't the consumer market leader. The US also prototypes the revolutionary new processes, i.e. 65nm-> 20nm -> ...-> 5nm -> 3nm processes all started in the US. But once the process has been proofed, and it's time for volume they send it to Israel or Taiwan to be mass produced because it's cheaper and for no other reason.
FYI, about half of Nvidia cards are assembled in China. The PCB, cooling, capacitors and voltage regulators are made in China, regardless of assembly location.
Most of these components could easily be made elsewhere, albeit at a higher cost.
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