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[–] weird@sub.wetshaving.social 106 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Huge companies would import stuff by the planeloads to avoid tariffs/duties

[–] AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Employees would be too busy hunting down CEOs to import stuff for the company.

[–] weird@sub.wetshaving.social 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I imagine there would be a group of people in each company with special contracts for hazard pay to work on purge day.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Just regular pay, but with the promise of a Friday pizza party.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 year ago

CEOs would be in Europe.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

The smarter ones would be vacationing in a different country, or on open seas on their yachts

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Apple was literally buying up entire passenger flights and filing them with iPhones instead of people to skirt in under the deadline. Capitalism is a hell of a drug.