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Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything

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462 points JumpCrisscross | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 20:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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hunglee2 ◴[31 Aug 25 07:00 UTC] No.45080988[source]▶
Clutching at straws but one silver lining from the accelerationist perspective is that the global economic damage of US Tariff War 2.0. will speed up the adoption of AI / automation. Payroll is one of the most expensive, high risk and illiquid commitments to the organisational budget, so the idea of replacing it with dial up / dial down Saas subscriptions will move from 'good idea' to 'business critical'

The effect will probably be similar to Covid / Remote Work - marginal idea until an externality made it essential. Does mean sh1t tons more unemployment though, so like I said, straws being clutched

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FromTheFirstIn ◴[31 Aug 25 15:08 UTC] No.45083747[source]▶
If this is the silver lining I’d hate to see the cloud
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1. spauldo ◴[31 Aug 25 23:55 UTC] No.45088175[source]▶
The cloud being moving away from the "you must work to eat" economy and into the "you can work if you want nice stuff" economy. Getting there won't be fun but a lot of us would like that for our grandchildren.