How do you get anything done at all??

That’s not really up to them being nice though. If you sell something of value X for a margin of 10%, and the price increases to 1.5X, then the margins must apply to 1.5X.

It’s compounding for each element of the chain, so a 10% tariff would very much increase the price way beyond 10%, without anyone needing to be greedy about it.

Then, if you take greed into account… good luck

“Likely” (it’s already ongoing)

Other people in his exact position were called samurai back then, at least that’s what I’ve read around