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I just googled "How do tariffs work?" I got hit with several college level vocabulary words describing tariffs in both the AI summary and my first result. It m

by hx8 1y ago

I just googled "How do tariffs work?" I got hit with several college level vocabulary words describing tariffs in both the AI summary and my first result. It might be less of a problem, if we had adequately funded schools.

slg 1y ago
The full AI summary from DuckDuckGo for "How do tariffs work?" >Tariffs are taxes imposed by a government on imported goods, making them more expensive to encourage consumers to buy domestic products instead. The costs of these tariffs are typically passed on to consumers, resulting in higher prices for imported items. I don't see any "college level vocabulary words" and it directly says that it makes goods more expensive and the costs are passed on to consumers. Maybe Google's complicated answer is part of the "media environment" being criticized.
- dylan604 1y ago
  domestic looks pretty challenging. /s Edit for the sarcastically challenged among us.
  - slg 1y ago
    I can't tell if this is a sarcastic comment. Not only is "domestic" a relatively simple word with a straightforward definition, but also the point of the original comment that "consumers will end up paying the tariffs" is still clear from the summary regardless.
  - dboreham 1y ago
    Like the beer?
- NoMoNemo 1y ago
  The LLM systems being what they are, you can ask google "how do tariffs work, using eighth grade words" and you get a very clear and correct explanation without the college level words. In simple terms, think of a tariff like a special tax a country puts on goods it buys from another country. Here's how it works: When a country wants to import something, like cars from Japan or clothes from China, it has to pay an extra fee (the tariff) to its own government before those goods can come into the country. This extra fee makes the imported goods more expensive than products made in the country itself. Why do governments do this? To protect local businesses: By making foreign products pricier, the government hopes people will choose to buy things made in their own country, helping local businesses grow and create jobs. To make money: Tariffs can also be a way for the government to collect some extra cash. To get other countries to change their ways: Sometimes, countries use tariffs as a way to pressure other nations to follow certain rules or to stop unfair trade practices. Example Imagine a bicycle store in the US wants to import a bicycle from another country that costs $1,000. If the US has an 11% tariff on bicycles, the store would have to pay an extra $110 (11% of $1,000) to the US government, making the total cost to bring the bike in $1,110. This makes bicycles made in the US seem more affordable by comparison.
ethbr1 1y ago
>> What is a tariff? A tariff is essentially a tax imposed by a government on imported goods. When a product crosses a country's border, the importing company pays this fee to the customs authority before the product enters the domestic economy. (start of Google summary)
- cnst 1y ago
  I'm guessing Google has a "be accurate" as its prompt, whereas DDG has a "be ducky"?
arbitrary_name 1y ago
Google, what's a "college level vocabulary word"? For crying out loud, information is so accessible. The inability to find and discern at least some level of truth (or at least gather multiple contrasting perspectives) is laziness, AND stupidity. I'm all for better schools, a better information ecosystem, and more tolerance, but why are we bending over backwards to tell malignantly underinformed people it's not their fault? It is! It is their fault.
- dylan604 1y ago
  AND stupidity is you being intentionally ignorant. People have much better things to do than look up words, look for dissenting opinions one something the face on their TV tells them. There's taking the kids to _______ practice. There's TV shows to keep up with. There's an infinite feed of content to scroll through. There's plenty of other things that they would prefer to do themselves than whatever it is you would prefer them to do. That does not qualify as stupid. To me, what is stupid, is everyone here calling others that have differing view points than their own stupid. You are willingly using that term in the same way you say they are willfully not looking things up.
  - wat10000 1y ago
    If you’re too busy to find out what tariffs are, fine. I get it. But then don’t have an opinion on the matter. Don’t vote for an absolute shithead because you think these things, which you’re too busy to find out about, will be great for the country.
    - dylan604 1y ago
      Having an opinion is a constitutional right. You can't tell people not to have an opinion. That is stupid. People vote for many reasons while a lot of those vote on a single issue. If the person receiving their single issue vote means there's baggage to get their one hot button item then so be it. I voted for someone not for what they represented so much as it was a vote not for the other person. The person receiving my vote definitely didn't make me all smiley and thinking panacea was on the way. In fact, my last 3 votes were this way.
chasd00 1y ago
> It might be less of a problem, if we had adequately funded schools. Just want to point out that giving more money to an underperforming school only makes it worse.
- supplied_demand 1y ago
  ==giving more money to an underperforming school only makes it worse.== Is there no circumstance where more funding would help an underperforming school? It certainly “can” make it worse in instances, but there are many reasons that a school might be underperforming. To imply that more resources would fail to help any of those problems is quite a leap. What if the student-teacher ration is 40-1 and more funds allows for another teacher, might that make the school better? What if the school is only open for 4 days due to low funding, might an additional day of school make it perform better? What if a school has multiple disabled students slowing down the curriculum, but no funds to give them personal support, might more funds help it perform better?

by hx8 1y ago

slg 1y ago

The full AI summary from DuckDuckGo for "How do tariffs work?" >Tariffs are taxes imposed by a government on imported goods, making them more expensive to encourage consumers to buy domestic products instead. The costs of these tariffs are typically passed on to consumers, resulting in higher prices for imported items. I don't see any "college level vocabulary words" and it directly says that it makes goods more expensive and the costs are passed on to consumers. Maybe Google's complicated answer is part of the "media environment" being criticized.

dylan604 1y ago
domestic looks pretty challenging. /s Edit for the sarcastically challenged among us.
- slg 1y ago
  I can't tell if this is a sarcastic comment. Not only is "domestic" a relatively simple word with a straightforward definition, but also the point of the original comment that "consumers will end up paying the tariffs" is still clear from the summary regardless.
- dboreham 1y ago
  Like the beer?
NoMoNemo 1y ago
The LLM systems being what they are, you can ask google "how do tariffs work, using eighth grade words" and you get a very clear and correct explanation without the college level words. In simple terms, think of a tariff like a special tax a country puts on goods it buys from another country. Here's how it works: When a country wants to import something, like cars from Japan or clothes from China, it has to pay an extra fee (the tariff) to its own government before those goods can come into the country. This extra fee makes the imported goods more expensive than products made in the country itself. Why do governments do this? To protect local businesses: By making foreign products pricier, the government hopes people will choose to buy things made in their own country, helping local businesses grow and create jobs. To make money: Tariffs can also be a way for the government to collect some extra cash. To get other countries to change their ways: Sometimes, countries use tariffs as a way to pressure other nations to follow certain rules or to stop unfair trade practices. Example Imagine a bicycle store in the US wants to import a bicycle from another country that costs $1,000. If the US has an 11% tariff on bicycles, the store would have to pay an extra $110 (11% of $1,000) to the US government, making the total cost to bring the bike in $1,110. This makes bicycles made in the US seem more affordable by comparison.

ethbr1 1y ago

>> What is a tariff? A tariff is essentially a tax imposed by a government on imported goods. When a product crosses a country's border, the importing company pays this fee to the customs authority before the product enters the domestic economy. (start of Google summary)

cnst 1y ago
I'm guessing Google has a "be accurate" as its prompt, whereas DDG has a "be ducky"?

arbitrary_name 1y ago

Google, what's a "college level vocabulary word"? For crying out loud, information is so accessible. The inability to find and discern at least some level of truth (or at least gather multiple contrasting perspectives) is laziness, AND stupidity. I'm all for better schools, a better information ecosystem, and more tolerance, but why are we bending over backwards to tell malignantly underinformed people it's not their fault? It is! It is their fault.

dylan604 1y ago
AND stupidity is you being intentionally ignorant. People have much better things to do than look up words, look for dissenting opinions one something the face on their TV tells them. There's taking the kids to _______ practice. There's TV shows to keep up with. There's an infinite feed of content to scroll through. There's plenty of other things that they would prefer to do themselves than whatever it is you would prefer them to do. That does not qualify as stupid. To me, what is stupid, is everyone here calling others that have differing view points than their own stupid. You are willingly using that term in the same way you say they are willfully not looking things up.
- wat10000 1y ago
  If you’re too busy to find out what tariffs are, fine. I get it. But then don’t have an opinion on the matter. Don’t vote for an absolute shithead because you think these things, which you’re too busy to find out about, will be great for the country.
  - dylan604 1y ago
    Having an opinion is a constitutional right. You can't tell people not to have an opinion. That is stupid. People vote for many reasons while a lot of those vote on a single issue. If the person receiving their single issue vote means there's baggage to get their one hot button item then so be it. I voted for someone not for what they represented so much as it was a vote not for the other person. The person receiving my vote definitely didn't make me all smiley and thinking panacea was on the way. In fact, my last 3 votes were this way.

chasd00 1y ago

> It might be less of a problem, if we had adequately funded schools. Just want to point out that giving more money to an underperforming school only makes it worse.

supplied_demand 1y ago
==giving more money to an underperforming school only makes it worse.== Is there no circumstance where more funding would help an underperforming school? It certainly “can” make it worse in instances, but there are many reasons that a school might be underperforming. To imply that more resources would fail to help any of those problems is quite a leap. What if the student-teacher ration is 40-1 and more funds allows for another teacher, might that make the school better? What if the school is only open for 4 days due to low funding, might an additional day of school make it perform better? What if a school has multiple disabled students slowing down the curriculum, but no funds to give them personal support, might more funds help it perform better?