I'm sure plenty of Americans would choose the latter because they don't have the money for the higher upfront cost, but I've been working on switching to American made goods, or at least higher quality goods, for a while and it is worth it.
Another problem is that women are the majority of spenders and they love fast fashion/temu shit
Because that $25 light bulb might last 10 times longer than the $5 light bulb, stupid. Also, the $25 light bulb might work with the outlet while the $5 light bulb might get so hot that it melts, or explode because the Chinese have no quality control.
The following are customers of Chinese goods:
The hardest part (and biggest downside) is it's really hard to judge/guarantee quality, whether chinkmade or American made. At least when you buy the cheapest piece of shit on the shelf, you know you got the cheapest.
The funny part is that both the left and the right are making those memes and its hard to tell who made which. I suspect the left will stop once they see that the right laughed at a meme thr wrong way.
Cobblers still exist and wouldn't you know it, they mainly work on stuff made in America not cheap chink shit. Because if you spend 300 bucks on workboots and the sole lasts you 10 years then you'll probably want to repair them instead of just throwing them away. Something everyone always overlooks when it comes to Tariffs and cheap chink shit. High quality more costly stuff also creates jobs to fix said costly stuff, whereas cheap chink shit you just throw in the trash when it breaks.
This should be fucking featured. How can anyone sit there and celebrate cheap Chinese-made shit? I wish it was the 1970's where everything was made in Hong Kong, at least that plastic crap worked. Half the Chinese-made shit these days breaks before it even arrives.
Hopefully both of those change soon. More expansion and fewer carrier strike groups.
Regulations don't hurt monopolies, they're the only ones that can afford the compliance cost.
We as a cultural embraced "disposable" post ww2, I hope we go back to high quality goods as things get more expensive thus making the cheap crap not worth it. But it will require a major cultural shift. I know you see it amongst leftists because environmental and all that jazz but unless people are able to make roots in a spot then everything is "starter".
I'm fucking tired of clothes being cheap pieces of shit whipped together by whipped children in third world shitholes. Socks unravelling within weeks of purchase, sportswear pants audibly ripping and crackling with a moderate tug on the drawstring, shirts and jackets coming off the rack with loose threads looking like they were sewn by my grandmother. Meanwhile I have in my closet a Walmart brand Faded Glory hoodie that I bought over a decade ago when I was in highschool and to this day there is not a single errant thread on it. It didn't use to be like this. Keep the slaves away from my fucking clothes, I don't care if that means I have to pay the extra cost of the manufacturer considering their workers to be human, I'll more than make my money back from not having to buy new sets of socks and underwear every couple months.
The year is 2025 and China has still never produced a competent internal combustion engine
Not all regulations are bad. Ones that keep workers and consumers from dying and the environment from being polluted are actually good. The issue is that the US government under Republicans and Democrats won't break up monopolies. Monopolies are also able to eat the costs of regulations because they off shore the most regulatory intensive areas to nations which have lower regulations.
I ask other people who are also interested in the same goal, or I shop in person, or do some research to figure out what qualities I should be looking for.
The importer pays the tariff which get added to the cost of the customer pays. this isn't hard. The alternative, which is rare, is that the exporter lowers their prices to keep the tariffed price the same as before the tarriff. I've seen both happen but the latter is rare.
