Boardgame company sues Trump cause of the tariffs
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I can have an amount of sympathy for starting production on something and then the tariff hitting after that's already done. That's an unfortunate position to end up in.
But they make note that their entire company and all its employees are all US citizens in the US. That means that the only reason for their production to be in China is cheap labor outsourcing. A morally repugnant choice that would be evil if the Chinese were able to be considered human.
They were abusing a game exploit to get something at a fraction of the cost it should, and they can't be mad when the GMs finally wake up and fix it. A bug remaining unfixed for a long time doesn't mean it never will be, there is always that chance.
In addition to this, Trump spent literal years on the campaign trail promising tariffs and punishing China. Okay, maybe you didn't believe Trump would actually win, but on November 6th, 2024, you should have started brainstorming a back-up business plan.
It really would have been better to just tell the factories hold off on shipping or cancel the order. I've known factories that got told that. Ashley furniture supposedly cancelled several hundred containers already from one factory. It's like they thought Trump was bluffing or China would negotiate
Well reading the other images they are literally renting a warehouse in China to "wait it out" right now hoping for it to drop. Which is smart, because its likely to drop eventually to a less grandiose number.
But instead of pressuring China to stop playing hardball or lose their business going forward, they are whining that Trump is trying to prevent them from doing exactly what they are doing, and shipping American manufacturing to China to avoid paying real money for it.
That's the problem when you become an "international business." You increase the whims you might be living under government and politics wise. And they are caught in a literal (trade) war between two nations and whining they might have to pick a side.
MBA bros think offshoring to some Asian shithole is free money with zero downside. Ship production to China, make line go up, collect multimillion dollar bonus.
It's about time these overeducated fucks start proving their worth.
People who complaint to ccp get disappeared
Sounds like their fucking problem for playing ball with such a dangerous country then.
The basic rules don't stop existing because you hooked up with someone who is psychotic.
They picked wrongly