(margin requirements increase with cost, but not necessarily at a multiple of cost. successful marketing at a higher price will be more expensive, but again, there’s potentially an offset in extra perceived value through accurate made-in-usa branding, and must it be basically 4x the difference?)

i’m happy to concede that @dieworkwear.bsky.social probably has a better sense of current practice than i do! but a question becomes whether the issue is remediable (a domestically produced downscale strategy hasn’t been done effectively, but maybe could be) or the cost structure is unavoidable.

This description presumes that marketing + overhead costs are a multiple of the goods price. but that makes little sense: the cost of marketing + selling a shirt in the US is the same whether the shirt was produced for $25 abroad or $45 at home. It seems like this account overstates the differential

i pray we never let them get there.

kafkaesque as aspirational (from a political movement that uses orwell as an instruction manual)

with apologies to @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, shorter Peter Thiel.

a remarkable thing abt Bari Weiss is how often the prominent people who say nice things abt her confess they know and like her personally. i’m really sure she’s delightful, charming, personable and helpful to those who know her! John Roberts is too. Clarence Thomas asks after everyone’s grandkids.

i was afraid it was going to be like that.

one video is tragedy. a thousand videos is just noise.

it’s weird how inured we’ve become. reliberation day is kind of a big deal, if we don’t TACO our way out of it very quickly. do we just presume we do? how much do China’s controls on rare earths matter in either case?

if you’re talking about your political party as a “brand”, you’e already lost the thread, if not the election.

youtu.be/qOfkpu6749w

feudalism is when you must do as the most pathetic people you encounter demand because they have the power to have you murdered.

jfc. A-Lie.

pleasantly surprised that here in Florida my wife and i were able to get COVID boosters without new formalities, attestations of comorbidities, etc. just signed up at CVS like last year.

pathetic.