Vishnu and the tariffs

chrisckif youre a skier and voted for trump gtfo, there are consequences to being an idiot and now the whole community has to pay :(

gnarley_marl“I prefer my goods manufactured in regions where there are no labor protections”

lurkingI guarantee "more labor protections" weren't listed as a positive thing in Trump's pros & cons reviewing trade policy.

gnarley_marlIf you thumbs down my posts in this thread you are a fucking zero brain cell idiot. Literal children with no concept of the world

NightGoblinMaybe you’re just fucking annoying, Snowflake :)

gnarley_marlAnd you’re probably 15

gnarley_marlhttps://www.unicef.org/vietnam/child-labour




You can easily verify that many ski goods are manufactured in the third world, and your cognitive dissonance won’t change that.

chrisckif youre a skier and voted for trump gtfo, there are consequences to being an idiot and now the whole community has to pay :(

Christian_Baleyeah we all know this. it's terrible. what feasible alternative would you propose? Bring back all the manufacturing to the US? Doesn't the US import close to half a trillion $ worth of goods from China per year? that's not gonna change in a meaningful way

gnarley_marlThat’s exactly the solution. Pay high prices for goods made under proper regulations and labor laws.

gnarley_marlThat’s exactly the solution. Pay high prices for goods made under proper regulations and labor laws.

hi_vis360Straight up that isn’t what people want though, everyone on here loves to piss and moan about how expensive on3ps are (I think they’re worth it)

BiffbarfPeople 'want' workers to get paid fair living wages until it makes their goods and services more expensive. Money talks and BS walks, turns out most people don't give a shit if 8yr old pingping huffs epoxy fumes and glass dust all day as long as their skis are $XXX instead of $XXXX.

hi_vis360Straight up that isn’t what people want though, everyone on here loves to piss and moan about how expensive on3ps are (I think they’re worth it)

abjectwoe100%

And guess what, ON3Ps are probably going to also become more expensive because of tariffs.

So to all the "bUy AmErIcAn" people are just straight up crazy. So many inputs in US manufactured goods come from elsewhere.

It's 2025. Dudes out here acting like we should be Edo period Japan and completely isolate.

There is a thing in economics called comparative advantage.

There is a world in which ON3P and Vishnu can both exist and be successful.

We can also make/grow more things in the US while ensuring there are labor standards with our trading partners. None of these things are mutually exclusive.

Politicians and billionaires are just fucking us in the ass: a tale as old as time.

BiffbarfYou're retarded.

BiffbarfPeople 'want' workers to get paid fair living wages until it makes their goods and services more expensive. Money talks and BS walks, turns out most people don't give a shit if 8yr old pingping huffs epoxy fumes and glass dust all day as long as their skis are $XXX instead of $XXXX.

hi_vis360Yeah exactly, like I’m down to pay the premium price for made in USA shit but I reeeealy think most people aren’t. I’ve only met a couple trump supporter park skiers, they both rode vishnus!

gnarley_marlI ride vishnus because I wanted light flappy park skis but I’m seriously considering getting on3ps if they’re American made. I guess I just didn’t know.

hi_vis360dude this is exactly my point lol

gnarley_marlI didn’t pick them for price point just for function. I can afford American made skis

gnarley_marlI ride vishnus because I wanted light flappy park skis but I’m seriously considering getting on3ps if they’re American made. I guess I just didn’t know.

TOAST.How do you not know on3ps are American made? Do you live under a rock?

gnarley_marlfocusing on other things. look at my account age vs number of posts…

BiffbarfWild you dodged a pretty huge part of NS lore. Props for not being a shitposting degen like the rest of us lingerers after all these years. Peep the thread if you want to want to see the start of on3p, they've been handmade in USA since. Moment is also American made if you didn't know

[URL]https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/388095/ON3P-Skis?page=1[/URL]

SSteezleDoes it make sense that everything we buy needs to be shipped across the world to get to us?

There's never been more incentive to make things in the USA.

USA company are finally getting the praise they always should have got.

Funny how most liberals don't seem to mind slave labor in china or shipping their toothbrush over 10,000 miles when they cry about climate change.

pissboycrazy. I guess I was sort of superficially aware but never saw the thread. That would have been right around the time I joined the site and started skiing as well.

I wonder what sort of top sheets @iggyskier would tolerate for custom skis

SSteezleDoes it make sense that everything we buy needs to be shipped across the world to get to us? There's never been more incentive to make things in the USA. USA company are finally getting the praise they always should have got. Funny how most liberals don't seem to mind slave labor in china or shipping their toothbrush over 10,000 miles when they cry about climate change.

jimbobsWell they won't allow the osama pros for the "worst topsheet" contests, so there's your litmus test.

Feet, beans, weed, cigarette fish, and brainrot are fair game tho

Farmville420I mean for manufactured goods no, but for manufacturing to happen here you still need to import materials, we dont have every natural resource necessary to function completely autonomously lol, no country does

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pissboythis is a reasonable statement but at the same time do you accept that the vast majority of goods produced in 2nd/3rd world do so under abusive labor conditions, including primary and secondary materials?

one of the reasons why manufacturing is so expensive in America is because we have extremely stringent regulations surrounding the manufacture of goods and these regulations WORK, to protect the producer, the employee, and the consumer

Farmville420What do you mean "at the same time", wanting things to be made here while acknowledging that we dont have every single natural resource in the world are not conflicting statements

pissboyplastic and epoxy are not natural resources; they are produced from petrochemicals which the US is a net exporter of.

The point i'm trying to make is that free trade facilitates the production of goods in regions that are known for labor abuses. We can easily produce these secondary materials in the 1st world

edit: changed "fiberglass" to "epoxy"


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Farmville420Yes but that's one example of things that can be manufactured here from scratch. There are other things more critical to the US which is lumber and we literally dont have enough forests to produce the amount wood required to sustain the current demand.

Even by cutting down every single national forest and bulldozing all of our parks we cannot sustain the demand for more than like 10 years, we need to import lumber. So that's an example of a situation where free trade is super cool because now we can ask Canada for some wood and they can sell us theirs since they have a fuck ton of forests. Now we have both wood, and national parks, I think thats a win.

Farmville420Yes but that's one example of things that can be manufactured here from scratch. There are other things more critical to the US which is lumber and we literally dont have enough forests to produce the amount wood required to sustain the current demand.

Even by cutting down every single national forest and bulldozing all of our parks we cannot sustain the demand for more than like 10 years, we need to import lumber. So that's an example of a situation where free trade is super cool because now we can ask Canada for some wood and they can sell us theirs since they have a fuck ton of forests. Now we have both wood, and national parks, I think thats a win.

pissboyfrom my brief research it looks like the shortfall in lumber capacity from Canada could pretty easily be filled in the US. obviously without touching ANY protected forests. I worked at a startup briefly that used loblolly pine as a raw material, there is actually a huge volume of soft woods produced (renewably) in the US