• commander@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Americans are going to be significantly re-evaluating what’s worth it for them now and progressively become more like consumers in other countries. As in they’ll be spending less and using things longer than before

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      13 hours ago

      I doubt that. As an American, the ones I know will continue to complain and not do anything differently unless they’re absolutely forced to. This isn’t going to force them to. It’s not life or death for a great many of them, and the ones it would be life or death for, well. They voted for the guy who decided to smack every country he could find with tariffs.

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        10 hours ago

        Yeah, it is more likely to have the opposite effect. Prices going up as a result of Trump’s tariffs is just going to reinforce the victim mentality his supporters have.

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      16 hours ago

      Let’s see if this actually happens or if people just put themselves in more debt. If there’s one thing the systems in America are good at, it’s preying on the poorer people by making all kinds of ways to still buy things and dig holes for yourself by loaning or credit cards.

      Most of the family I know on my girlfriend’s side that’s been complaining about the prices going up haven’t done much more than that, complaining and slowly creeping up their credit card debt.