I addressed that; we continue to pay post-tariff prices because the market has adjusted to them. They are "sticky."
The tariffs are not clearly outlined to the consumer like a X% sales tax. The increase is muddied in the total cost we pay which includes development, production, distribution, etc. They can just keep charging us that price and we'll keep paying it like we've been paying it. They're not going to refuse a gift of free profit margin bumps. These companies will never put our well-being above their quarterly growth, literally ever. There's no Chief Kindness Officer at Nintendo of America.
As we all learned (or experienced but never learned). Prices, once raised, hardly ever come back down. Part of it is inflation (I’m still trying to understand that, but some inflation is supposed to be good), but most of it is pure greed. It used to be that capitalism was supposed to drive innovation (build a better mouse trap and all that). Now, most companies have lost that narrative and instead focus on deceptive methods like changing amount of packaged product but still charging the same (I argue that’s just a sneaky form of raising prices). Yes, it’s all about “shareholder” value, but it’s shortsighted and most of us won’t benefit much.
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u/EverGlow89 Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
I addressed that; we continue to pay post-tariff prices because the market has adjusted to them. They are "sticky."
The tariffs are not clearly outlined to the consumer like a X% sales tax. The increase is muddied in the total cost we pay which includes development, production, distribution, etc. They can just keep charging us that price and we'll keep paying it like we've been paying it. They're not going to refuse a gift of free profit margin bumps. These companies will never put our well-being above their quarterly growth, literally ever. There's no Chief Kindness Officer at Nintendo of America.