Do these large investments actually do anything for the average Joe? Trump has been boasting about major international corporations investing massive amounts of money into America, but I don’t understand how that matters to me at all. Grocery prices are still insane, gas isn’t cheaper (despite him lying about it), housing is more expensive than ever, wages continue to stagnate, insurance premiums continue to rise while covering less, wealth inequality has never been worse in human history, air travel has never been more expensive, and the list goes on and on and on.

Furthermore, when super corporations come to your towns and cities, they act as a vacuum for the local economy. Money is no longer cyclical, and instead is syphoned away from you and your neighbors, into forever vaults of the extremely wealthy.

So can someone explain to me how this is good? I’m genuinely asking.

>>512448385 (OP)
The average Joe.

>>512448385 (OP)
I can tell you don't actually do any of your own shopping.
Grocery prices and gas have gone down a little. But what is more important is they stopped climbing in price.

>>512448432
Thank you for the bump

>>512448432
Ok groomer

>>512448385 (OP)
>Do these large investments actually do anything for the average Joe?
Nope

>>512448385 (OP)
No, it just means the US will be stronger militarily which gives us a little peace.

>>512448385 (OP)
Does absolutely nothing.

>>512448437
The dollar itself has lost 10% value since December.

>>512448432
Biden might be creepy, but the Epstein files were sealed under pending court cases during his term, Trump promised to release them while campaigning and not refuses, really makes him look like an even more malevolent pedophile. His background is full of things at least as creepy and malicious seeming as Biden sniffing kids and talking about roaches, you cucked faggots would do anything to distract from Trump being a pedo.

>>512448793
Trump is a pedophile, but that isn’t the point of this thread.

>>512448757
People say this, but I havn't felt it. But I don't have investments, and I have a real job that produces value.

>>512448840
The point of his post and picture was clearly to deflect towards Biden being a pedo.

>>512448862
>it’s not happening to me so it’s not happening at all
Thank you for the bumps

>>512448385 (OP)
>Do these large investments actually do anything for the average Joe?
in Russia we call those bribes.
the answer is no.

>having work and high tech industries is... le BAD!

>>512449126
Ask San Francisco how good having a tech boom was for their city.

>>512448757
Oh no, how will I cope with my wage rising marginally while prices for everything I purchase drop marginally? The dollar has dropped marginally in value. It's so over. I'll never be able to cope with cheaper food and cheaper energy and cheaper transportation because, well I just won't, okay?

>>512449297
>In a concentrated market, one firm could announce it's going to raise prices because of inflation. And its rivals might look at that and say, oh, this is a good excuse to raise prices. They're raising prices, so we should match. And we should announce we're raising prices also. We call this tacit collusion. And in a setting like this one, where inflation might be giving firms permission to raise prices and then they follow each other, that could cause price increases.

Prices for goods are going up, and it isn’t a singular cause. Tacit collusion refers to a situation in an oligopoly market where firms coordinate their actions to achieve a common goal, such as higher prices, without any explicit communication or formal agreement. It's a form of collusion that arises from firms observing each other's behavior and adjusting their own strategies accordingly.

It’s happening, will continue to happen, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

>>512448385 (OP)
>Do these large investments actually do anything for the average Joe?
Not only they don't do that, they never even happen, look at the Stargate shit

>>512449592
That’s another great angle for this criticism. These companies haven’t even invested this money, only the “promise” to. Which is literally meaningless

>>512448385 (OP)
>Trump announces
>investment pledge
The way it works is Trump spazzes out, the other party makes some non committal 'pledges' to invest money at some later date, then Trump declares victory.

It's the same way with the EU deal that included $600 billion of US gas. Europe doesn't have the money, America doesn't have the gas, and the EU didn't even say they'd buy it, just 'pledge' that private European companies would, which the EU can't even force them to do.

>>512449704
it is more likely connected to his promise to bring back iphone manufacturing to usa.

a small bribe from apple and trump has a new "good deal".

and we never hear again about bringing back iphone manufacturing to usa.

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>>512448909
Actually I wanted to post a Joe Biden picture and say average Joe. That's the first one I found in my folder.

>>512448385 (OP)
>installing more jeethives in the midwest
Fuck Trump

>>512448385 (OP)
Alright I'll give you an answer.
>Do these large investments actually do anything for the average Joe?
Depends on the product. If a large retail store comes into an area, it kills small businesses. If a large manufacturer comes in but only employs general laborers and only assembles parts from overseas it creates low income dependencies and stagnates the community.

However, if a large manufacturer comes in and hires engineers, well paid operators, and provides business to small companies in the area (machine shops, electricians, ect) and produces high value products from the ground up it will change the local economy and create wealth.
So, an Amazon warehouse creates low income dependencies, but a tractor factory creates growth.

>Furthermore, when super corporations come to your towns and cities, they act as a vacuum for the local economy. Money is no longer cyclical, and instead is syphoned away from you and your neighbors, into forever vaults of the extremely wealthy.

This is true if the only thing the business does is consume local labor such as a distributor. Companies that contract out small local businesses actually help the local economy.