Somebody made a STL you can print

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When I was a kid, everybody brushed it off as satire, if they acknowledged it at all.

No, because orthopedics covers congenital stuff like scoliosis too

Where are you getting your numbers?

I disagree that 90% of americans aren’t doing anything. I see protests literally every day, so I don’t know what you’re on about.

Its not in the news, but we’re already doing what you mentioned. What else do we do?

It’s aluminium producers who profit from the tariffs

Exactly. Tariffs drive prices up, and non-tariffed producers are incentivized to also raise prices, because it’s pure profit that will go out as fat checks to their shareholders and execs.

IIRC, there’s like seven different species people call “june bug”.

The shortage of local aluminum means that somebody can build a new plant because the tariffs allow them to make a profit.

Who? Which supplier do you think will tell their shareholders that they’re not getting huge dividends from the tariffs?

But overall the idea should work.

Not really. Just tarrifs don’t work, because it would require companies to voluntarily reduce profits for a period of time, and publicly traded companies get sued by shareholders if they do stuff like that.

The idea behind tarrifs, is that they’ll make non-American goods more expensive than American goods, and people will choose the less expensive option.

The problem is, that’s not happening. There often isn’t a 100% American made option, most “made in the USA” still relies on material imports, which are tarrifed, so their prices went up too.

There isn’t enough US materials, so even if you source local aluminum, the demand has outpaced the supply, so the cost has gone up.

Then there’s labor, where manufacturing typically imports labor too, but they’re being deported, and domestic labor costs more, so prices have gone up.

Tarrifs only work if theres a ton of legislation impacting the companies themselves, because they will never take a voluntary decrease in profit.

Are you having a stroke?

Its an adorable isopod