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Graphics cards will be the least of your worries. Putting tariffs on chips will crash the economy, there's no way anyone will let him do this.
They want the economy to crash.
One side because they like to crash businesses and then walk away with all the money, and they figure a country is no different.
And the other side will let them, because they want people to stop playing those degenerate evil video games. That it does great damage to the country is simply a just punishment for allowing such degeneracy in the first place, in their minds.
Wrong kind of crash and video games aren’t what’s being affected here. It’s cars, ai, defence contracts, Israel
There’s no way it would go through unless Trump is replacing Taiwan with China like he does with other targeted tariffs
The amount of people who don't know how pervasive computer chips are; is only slightly above the amount of people who support trump.
Which is insane because it was all over the news just a couple years ago about why vehicle prices had gotten so high... Because of a chip shortage.
I’m just saying that’s what they think. Of course it’s going to fuck everything else over, but the people supporting this in the hallowed halls of congress seem to be in one of two camps lately.
Crashing the economy lets them buy companies for cheap so they'll concentrate even more wealth onto themselves when the economy rebounds.
Hitting the tech sector harder than everything else will remove their ability to leverage their own tech businesses to buy up others.
Depends on how much of their money is liquid or in non-tech assets. It doesn't matter that the tech sector gets hit the hardest if they're certain that they can get it to bounce back by the time they've bought out companies in other sectors.
The answer to that is very little of it. Their networth is due to their ownership of these stocks. If the value of these stocks dip more than others (and due to the AI craze, they are more inflated than even other tech stocks), they lose collateral to borrow against (this is how musk bought Twitter).
Consumer graphics is a tiny fraction. The real buyers are enterprise datacenters and super computers. El captian at the Lawrence Livermore national lab alone has 43,000 apus.
All it would do is force people to keep their very much still capable last gen computers lmao
There are chips in nearly every single appliance you own at this point. From your car to your toaster.
I read "car" as "cat"... and that would still be correct sometimes.
Sorry - all it would do in regards to “countering the threat of gaming”