r/wallstreetbets • u/MikeMikeGaming AI bubble survivor • Jan 28 '25

News Trump To Tariff Chips Made In Taiwan, Targeting TSMC

https://au.pcmag.com/computers-electronics/109466/trump-to-tariff-chips-made-in-taiwan-targeting-tsmc

Why don't we kick Nvidia while it's down am I rite?

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u/Critical-General-659 Jan 28 '25

There won't be anything worth buying. What will they do? Buy all the property nobody can afford? But the companies selling products nobody can afford? 

If you ruin America's trade partnerships and alliances, we're like a big Brazil. 

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

Here is the thing about *feeling* rich: it's not about how much you have, it's about how much *more* you have than others.

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u/onlycommitminified Jan 28 '25

Past a certain point, your money can’t really elevate you anymore. Once the length of your yacht gets into the triple digits, all of it is just abstract and no longer generates additional presence. The only way to get bigger is to make everyone else smaller.

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u/stingraycharles Jan 28 '25

I remember this thread that went viral on some Chinese forum, a decade or so ago. Some guy showed off a bit of money, and everyone started one-up’ing each other, showing off millions of dollars.

The thread ended with someone replying with an official arrest order for OP.

Moral of the story: power is the end goal once you have enough money.

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u/PerformerOk7669 Jan 28 '25

It really sucks. Most humans don’t have this defect, and yet they suffer at whims of those who do. I wish there was just something in place that disallowed power hungry folks from ever attaining power.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

They’re voted in by hordes of people “without” the defect

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u/BigDaddyZuccc Jan 28 '25

Well that's the fun part. By grinding and mangling our psyches from a young age, those with the defect are left with the perfect vessels to cram sympathy for themselves into. They'll fight their peers for them, spread their ideologies like plagues, and obviously put them in power every chance they get.

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u/Rico_Rebelde Jan 29 '25

Thats actually not true, most humans do have this flaw in our nature to some degree. That's why scapegoating minorities and poor people is so effective at distracting from material issues that actually effect people.

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u/JuanJeanJohn Jan 28 '25

Yes, these people are just actual psychopaths. They genuinely do not care about burning it all down as long as they come out as the few on top (and in their minds, the fewer the better). They are competitive to an unhealthy degree and had a desire for power and control at psychotic levels. Truly outright villains we are just handing the country to.

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u/QuantTrader_qa2 Jan 28 '25

At that point its very much about power and money is just an expression of that.

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u/Prepared_Noob Jan 28 '25

That’s what you think

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u/onlycommitminified Jan 28 '25

Incredible deduction, how did you work it out?

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u/SuperWaluigi77 Jan 28 '25

Sure sure. If there's one thing I have learned about the ultra-rich, it's that they all just quit trying to make more money, because it stops "elevating" them.

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u/Lazy_Ad3222 Jan 28 '25

You think all people are the same because of how much money they have.

Therefore, you are admitting that you’d become just like them with the amount of money they have.

It’s pretty shallow and I don’t think it’s true at all.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/key-factor-in-well-being-others-apparent-wealth

Its actually a well know psychological phenomenon, and a big reason social media is correlated with depression.

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u/staticfive Jan 28 '25

I have a feeling they're creating a situation where they won't have enough about what actually matters very, very soon.

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u/MBCnerdcore Jan 28 '25

not "Nobody", wealthy international investors. Chinese and Indian millionaires will own all the property in the USA.

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u/Critical-General-659 Jan 28 '25

Who's gonna make their investments worth it? Will they convert them to tenements? Nobody will be able to afford to rent or buy without a job. 

If AI takes over a majority of all the "meetings and emails" jobs, who pays for this shit? 

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u/rocketseeker Jan 28 '25

Except you have a crushing military force, Brazil has some stuff but not nearly what the U.S. has 

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u/Neuchacho Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

The crushing military force has a diminished benefit when it's chiefed by an idiot who seems to actively want to send the US into decline on purpose.

Post Trump, though? I'd be legit worried in a depressed economy that people would vote in someone that has a real hard-on and the actual intelligence to utilize the US military in some scary ways. The hop from "trade war" to "hot war" isn't really that far, especially for people who probably view human lives as simple balance sheet inputs.

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u/gcstr Jan 28 '25

As a Brazilian, I'm offended. But I agree :(

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u/Stipes_Blue_Makeup Jan 28 '25

But with no coffee.

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u/GarnetandBlack Jan 28 '25

The goal isn't strictly money, it's control and power too.

His whole "Russia sees us as weak" isn't about America as a whole. The "us" in that quote are the rich. It's about how much more control those in power have there than here.

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u/Attheveryend Jan 28 '25

They said Littlefinger would burn Westeros to the ground if he could be king of the ashes.

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u/EuropeanPepe Jan 28 '25

you will not be buying products from companies nobody can afford but
with techobro supper powers you will subscribe to "be temporary lender" of a product you can finally lend temporarily!

Coming soon steel brush dildo subscription only 6.99$

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u/rockstar504 Jan 28 '25

Buy all the property nobody can afford?

I can't tell if you're serious.. but absolutely. They can rent it out forever and if they don't like the property taxes they'll change the laws to benefit themselves

They'll rebuild areas devastated by wildfires and rape the people who were fucked by those same very people not believing in climate change

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u/NkdUndrWtrBsktWeevr Jan 28 '25

Just wait till he pisses off enough people and they band together to remove the USD from being the defacto currency in oil purchases.

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u/Efficient_Bother_162 Jan 28 '25

Lol you're Brazil without healthcare already

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u/CBalsagna Jan 28 '25

You remember when we used to work, and then got our housing and groceries from the same place? He wants to go back to that. We won't need to own anything; him and his buddies will own it all and allow us the pleasure of living and working for such great men.

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u/Redwolfdc Jan 28 '25

The man is unhinged. These decisions aren’t like him and economic advisors developing a trade strategy that benefits the US. It’s Trump just randomly deciding this shit without any thought of the outcome then yes men he’s surrounded by going along with it. 

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u/Clockwork_Medic Jan 28 '25

Russian oligarchs were able to buy up the country’s assets for relative pennies on the dollar when the USSR collapsed. A handful of already well-off people became even more rich and powerful, while millions of others starved