• blackbeans@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Microsoft is a US company but Xbox is an imported product, being manufactured in China. Therefore it was subject to the tariffs.

    Let me ask you a question.
    Say you export bananas to the European Union. Then the people in the EU vote to prioritize Europe above every other country (MEGA) and thanks to them you suddenly have to pay import tariffs on every banana. You are forced to raise sales prices to compensate which reduces the number of sales and lowers your turnover. Now it turns out the tariffs were unlawful and you get money back from the EU. Would you feel that that money belongs to the people in the EU?

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      1 day ago

      Yes, because I’m not an amoral psycho that runs a multi-billion dollar corp, or one of their brainless sycophants that goes through social media simping for them to make more money.

      • blackbeans@lemmy.zip
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        18 hours ago

        Well, at least we agree there. I too have no idea why people like to suck corporate d.

        If you hate a company, don’t buy stuff from them. Don’t go whining that they owe you money after you voluntarily spent hundreds of dollars on them, that’s a weak move.

        Also if you don’t want tariffs, talk to the brain dead people around you that vote for people like Trump instead of blaming companies that aren’t even from the US for having to deal with tariffs.