It’s hilarious to me that the liberals that I know that complain about all the garbage being made in China don’t realize that their favorite stuff is also made in China.
You see these online reviewers spreading signophobia by being like “hey this item is made in China just letting you know”. As if it means anything.
Then they cope so hard when their favorite stuff says “designed in America” or “made in America with global parts” which in reality just means that 99% of it was manufactured offshore and it was only assembled here or they just slapped a label on it. Such bullshit.
Then again most people don’t care. I just know a bunch of liberal douchebags.
A lot of that whining is just getting what you paid for and then coping with racism. Like, yeah if you buy the cheapest possible stuff you can find it’s probably gonna suck. But that’s not because Chinese goods are poorly made, it’s because cheap goods are poorly made.
I would say that price hasn’t had any bearing on quality for a decade at least. People are just holding this underlying assumption that “more expensive” = “higher quality” but most expensive stuff is just branded with a fancier brand and is often made in the exact same factory as the “cheap” option.
That’s true for some stuff (premium cables come to mind) but there’s also some things you should still be suspicious of if they’re being sold dirt cheap, like tools. I wouldn’t trust a dollar store saw to cut anything
They love to tout how great and durable Japanese products are (Playstation, Nintendo controllers etc.) … except those are not manufactured in Japan lol.
Hell, even a sizable portion of coffins used in Japan are made in the PRC lmao.
When did the majority of Americans ever care? No one has enough money to pay the premium for things made in the USA, and most things aren’t made here anyway
Exactly, it’s just the political class freaking out. Most people don’t give a shit where their goods are made.
Anecdotally, I do not know a single person that has ever checked the “Made in X” tag on a product before buying it. Even the most nationalistic folks I know.
Some people might see an online advert where the vendor is pushing the “made domestically” tagline hard, and it might even get them to buy that product, which probably had 80% of the components made in China anyway. I’ve never seen somebody stopped from buying a product because it was manufactured in China though.
Oh yeah, China is the main source of inputs for about 95% of all American industrial sectors once you include all the intermediaries. There is zero chance of any meaningful decoupling happening.
https://edconway.substack.com/p/globalisation-is-a-far-far-bigger
Ahkshually sir we are calling it derisking but rest assured it’s not because we have realised the impossibility of the task
lol yeah, they really walked that back from the original lofty goals haven’t they
I actually did stop buying made in China stuff when the first news articles about Uyghurs dropped and I completely believed them. It was such a pain in the ass to do lol.
