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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by dev_l1x_be on Saturday April 12, 2025 @12:26PM (#43665789)
I thought this is what happened during covid already. We wiped out a large number of small businesses.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/fre...

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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by vkou on Saturday April 12, 2025 @01:04PM (#43666153)
Small businesses die and start all the time.

It's unsurprising that more of them would die during a massive recession and a global pandemic.

Those numbers are meaningless without a similar count of small businesses opening.

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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by jtthe13 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @01:47PM (#43666502)
I gather you haven't started your own business, or did yours start and die repeatedly?
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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by vkou on Saturday April 12, 2025 @09:32PM (#43669316)
People die all the time, and every year, more people are dying than any prior year in history.

Without context for how many people are born every year, one might read that and conclude that we're about to all die out.

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