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"Maybe the Children Will Have 2 Dolls Instead of 30 Dolls" - Donald Trump seems to not grasp retailers + USA middle-men profit off dirt-cheap Chinese goods they get for $2, resell retail for $18 (www.youtube.com)
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"Maybe the Children Will Have 2 Dolls Instead of 30 Dolls" - Donald Trump seems to not grasp that retailers + USA middle-men make profit off dirt-cheap Chinese goods they get for $2, resell retail for $18 (and that this employs USA people)

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[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 19 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It is also as if Donald Trump is selling the idea to Americans that we need to get by with only 2 toys, "belt tightening", for who? So Billionaires can have even more money than everyday people?

We have such a massive set of literacy, comprehension, understanding problems in USA society that people don't even get that the whole reason people voted for Donald Trump's magical thinking is because the wealthiest 1% of the population has been getting a bigger and bigger part of the economy while everyday people who are not landlords, brand owners, corporation owners, asset holders - are getting mentally manipulated with "wealth televangelism" from above. The wealthiest people in the nation are hiring Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk to use media systems to educate everyday people to admire people like Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, Donald Trump as wealth-lords! The wealthy are punching down with their army of lawmakers, psychologists and psychiatrists to manipulate everyday people into handing over power and wealth!

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 6 points 22 hours ago

“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man, year 1951

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The profit off the intellectual property (IP) of a Star Wars toy is taken in the USA, even if the toy is manufactured with plastics in China. The USA retailer and intellectual property brand owner is making far more profit than the factory making the product.

Same often with farmer. When a restaurant sells a plate of food for $28.13, the farmer who grows the corn and harvests it is lucky to make $0.70 of that plate of food. The waiter getting a tip is earning more per hour than that farmer.

It is as if Donald Trump / White House does not grasp "value added retailing / value added reselling" and how a toy is just a toy, but having the Star Wars brand and film rights to put on that blob of plastic to make an action figure is what makes it worth $18. The factory in China is cut-throat trying to profit $0.70 on a $2.00 toy they produce, where Disney is pocketing way more money slapping the Star Wars permission / brand rights / logo ownership on that doll. Especially with products that get bundled with high-margin services and luxury stores and delivery.

[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

...he said, as he sat in front of the new solid gold ornaments he had installed all around the Oval Office.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

sat in front of the new solid gold ornaments he had installed all around the Oval Office.

Those leaders in Ancient Egypt got to sit next to the pyramids of former rulers who had lavish tombs filled with gold and other valuables... asking their followers to start preparing for the ruler afterlife. Rather proven system of popularity.

[–] tane2@lemm.ee 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Trump of all people saying this, man born with everything, is so insulting it’s crazy people just take it

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

is so insulting it’s crazy people just take it

yes, it is mass psychosis of the entire population. People can not resist calling just a few people crazy ("Trump Crazy, Trump Insane, Marjorie Greene Taylor insane" over and over)... it is the population who is flocking to Elon Musk / Rupert Murdoch / Donald Trump / JD Vance / Rudy G / etc that should be the focus. Group-think, mob mentality.

People seem entirely unable to describe cult group behaviors and how critical it is we start doing cult-deprogramming.

  1. "MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL"

  2. A 1985 book by Neil Postman, Manhattan / New York University Professor (Donald Trump's Home Town) predicted all this for America's future. On February 2, 2017 his son Andrew Postman confirmed that Donald Trump was what his father's book was ultimately about.

  3. The Theory of SOCIETAL STUPIDITY by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nazi Germany mass conformity / collective blindness

[–] Aliktren@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Land of the free

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago