Quote from: TruthIsThere on May 15, 2024, 06:43:47How about this U.S. - raise at least a 150% tariff (tax), at first, on Apple, Microsoft and other U.S. greediest companies that are continuing hurting consumers around the globe (since the global lockdown) with their extreme inflated prices (price-gouging) to ENCOURAGE them to reduce their prices or they will face even higher tariffs the longer they fail to comply and then, the same for your friends from Taiwan / South Korea / Japan from them all building (sourcing) from China, Vietnam, India, ect. at extremely cheap (child-building) rates, or the many 3rd- 4th-world countries' rates and later, they WILL ALL distribute that product several times the the cost that these greedy companies paid to manufacture it.
So what's the matter, raise the Chinese? But in reality, the SI will again wipe out (as always, without banning anything in response) and will continue to use Western technologies, because They don't have their own. But the envy of ordinary Chinese has not gone away, and with the growing level of consumption and education, this envy will only grow if they have to buy only local products based on backward technologies.
Exactly the envy of ordinary residents of the USSR towards the standard of living in the West in the 80s. as well as the desire of the middle and upper layer of kleptocrats to ensure the possibility of transferring stolen property to children (and in the USSR there was no private ownership of the means of production, etc., i.e., it was simply impossible to privatize any company/factory, through the purchase of shares, even for stolen/corrupt money of the highest kleptocrats) led to collapse. The United States always acts only in its own selfish interests, all other cries about democracy, freedom of speech and human rights are a smokescreen for idiots, who are the majority on the planet (but now much less, haha, after the demonstrative selfish duplicity of the West in Ukraine).
The United States already openly hates ordinary people in Ukraine and sets fire to military registration and enlistment offices, just like in Russia, and Zelensky's power is exactly the same totalitarian as in Russia.
The other day, the moral monster Blinken (US Secretary of Foreign Affairs) visited Ukraine and sang songs and had fun in Kyiv bars, while Ukrainians were dying in their hundreds and thousands at the front. Why are they dying there? When their kleptocrats of all stripes continue to steal and relax together with the kleptocrats of the USA and the EU? Their children are absent at the front and under bombing in cities and villages. It is the fault of the USA/England and allies that all this has been happening for 3 years in a row. But slave owners have no problem with the slaughter of ordinary sheep. Plus/minus a million heads of deceased slaves in the slaughterhouse - for them it's just statistics on the books. Until slaves start hanging them on lanterns. But for this they must truly wake up, be mentally reborn, but everything turns out exactly the opposite - they are becoming dumber and dumber and despondently go to the slaughter organized by the kleptocrats.
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But let's return to the usual topic for ordinary consumers:
In the Russian Federation, for example, Apple does not officially sell its products and no longer provides warranty support, but nevertheless there are a lot of people willing to buy them on the gray market. It's just that if earlier it was more accessible to ordinary people (taking into account the cost of risks), now only the rich can afford it. And the rich in the Russian Federation = kleptocrats in 98%+ of cases, especially now. As in most third countries with authoritarian or totalitarian rule.
If there is demand, there will always be supply.
And most importantly, what is the point of banning Microsoft programs in some country if they are already free, if the person is not a clinical idiot? Windows is a geopolitical weapon and the perfect spy data collection tool, like iOS, like Android, like everything else that the natives in the third world like.
What will the Chinese or Russians use en masse if Microsoft products and all other Western technologies are banned? The Chinese will immediately have to roll back their progress by at least 3-4 steps back (5 or more years ago). Who will like this among the ordinary herd? Again, it will quickly become dependent on ordinary people in the West. And this envy will grow and become critically dangerous for the local kleptocracy if the West increases its scientific and technological gap, especially in terms of everyday comfort for ordinary people. If the West is unable to increase the gap or it even begins to shrink, then yes, Westerners will soon feel very bad - their standard of living rests on the systemic seigniorage of fiat candy wrappers and the accumulation of debts, which almost everyone is currently using.
So what are the chances that China, mired in problems both economically and socially, will catch up with the West or even become the technological leader in the world in the next 20-30 years? The chances are minimal. Rather, general degradation - in the USA (in the West as a whole) it is worse, in China it is even worse than in the USA. There will be complete poverty in Russia, and then, as usual, the inevitable "revolution" here and there.
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