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Soundwave on 21 August 2025
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Chrkeller said:
Soundwave said:

Why would it, even if some GPUs are manufactured in the US, they will be the most expensive of their product line, the GPUs they maintain for the rest of the world will be made cheaper in Asia, so you'll at best pay the same price in the US if Nvidia is being generous, realistically probably more in the long run. 

They will keep investments here but move cutting edge production back to Asia as soon as they get the chance too as well once Trump is toast. 

Walmart just reported quarterly earnings and they have admitted prices on items is going up at their store. Home Depot said basically the same thing yesterday. 

US consumers will pay a consumption tax on a lot of goods. Simple as that. 

That and Trump isn't looking so physically well these days, he looked tired at that Russia summit and struggled to just walk in a straight line, this looks an awful lot like the beginnings of what was happening to Joe Biden. He misspeaks more and more often too. I wonder at what point companies will start tuning the Toddler In Chief out as he gets further along in his old age. 

It was mostly a joke.  Between PC playing third party, Sony, MS, emulation and free online...  I just think it is the way to go.  

and I will happily pay more to ensure people have jobs, but maybe that is just me.  

People say that shit all the time and generally they are full of shit.

Once the novelty wears off (which will be fast), you'll be left with a lot of complaining. There are plenty of industries that are largely American run still, you can go to one likely right now in 2-10 minutes to support them if you wish. Restaurants are basically American workers (wait staff, cooks, etc.) and even a lot of the food supply (even for a company like McDonalds) is from the US. 

Go ahead. Even places like Dennys and iHop that were affordable 10-15 years ago for a lot of people is becoming more and more expensive, ain't no one sitting there going "well that was $25 for breakfast per person, but it sure was nice paying the salary of an American worker!" ... lol. Less and less people are eating out though, don't see any patriotic surge to go out there and help those home grown American workers. You can even tip them a nice 15-20%, but most people also complain about that. You're welcome to go to bars/pubs and pay $8+ a drink too. 

There isn't an employment problem in America to begin with. Unemployment was low under Joe Biden. It's a wage problem, people want higher wages and higher quality jobs, but that means more expensive goods. And hate to break it to people but working in a fucking factory 12 hours a day making shoes or even iPhones sucks ass. A lot of Americans don't want  those jobs any more than they don't want to pick fruit outside 12 hours a day in the blazing sun. Immigrants will do that job because it's above the salary they would get in their country, people in Asia will work for $2-$4 hour with 16 hour shifts and no medical/dental, but Americans don't want to work even minimum wage for soul crushing work. 

Making iPhones (or Playstations) is dull, repetitive work that requires long hours stuck indoors, in Foxconn factories in China at one point the conditions were so bad that they had a problem with employee suicides.  These are not glamour jobs. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 21 August 2025