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0 pointswatwut10mo ago0 comments

> Yet they were shipping it here and forcing American consumers to pay $20 in taxes instead of possibly claiming an almost $36 profit margin by paying $2 of taxes on raw parts and assembling it here

You assume that salary of people involved in putting the speaker together (or more likely robotic automatization) would amount to 2$ per speaker?

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hparadiz10mo ago

No no. $2 for the tax on raw parts and then there's $36 of profit per unit to work with. Potentially. Just a thought experiment.

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0 pointswatwut10mo ago0 comments

> Yet they were shipping it here and forcing American consumers to pay $20 in taxes instead of possibly claiming an almost $36 profit margin by paying $2 of taxes on raw parts and assembling it here

You assume that salary of people involved in putting the speaker together (or more likely robotic automatization) would amount to 2$ per speaker?

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hparadiz10mo ago

No no. $2 for the tax on raw parts and then there's $36 of profit per unit to work with. Potentially. Just a thought experiment.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse