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5 months ago@wintermute_oregon @realcaseyrollins a lot of those people are just useful idiots. they’re mad about whatever they’ve been primed to riot about. they don’t actually have a basic understanding of how food arrives at stores or the implications of wages on the cost of their coffee. it’s really sad.
@teratology @wintermute_oregon @realcaseyrollins depends where in europe and what you are doing.
importing a Deluge from new zealand had an import duty of 0$ because the USA doesn’t really charge other colonials import tax. the same device to a German musician held something like a 300$ overhead to the government.
in my recent reading about cinema cameras, someone was charged around 170$USD to have their camera sent back to black magic for servicing. the brits and euros it was more like 400$.
there are a lot of import/export fees and license buggery that just doesn’t exist in the USA.
but my original point was you just have these wealthy or scholarship/loan people that want cheap coffee at school but then someone tells them to be mad about what the poors make, and i don’t think it actually occurs to them that paying the barista 20$ an hour means the cost of their coffee is going to go up.