• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    People need to eat. They don’t need chain food, but many people don’t have time to cook these days.

    People don’t need to buy games.

    It will always be a different market for food than it is for games.

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      10 days ago

      OK, then look at cable TV. Or any other industry where a tax or regulatory fee was added and a customer gets a detailed bill with charges other than the product cost. They just add line items and pass it on, but of course most of the time those line items aren’t directly connected to the cost itself since the consumer wasn’t the direct target. So the companies add a little extra for “processing” (i.e. profit). It’s a common practice and likely to be the same with the tariffs.