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I remember when it was the Japanese who were bad guys for making good stuff cheaply. Now it's China. Has no-one read Orwell?

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If it's someone else making money instead of us, they are going to be the bad guys.

same with Germany, that's why the label was invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany

It's interesting that the label was introduced in Britain to discourage consumers from buying products imported from Germany. Only then Germany managed to turn it into a brand associated with high quality.

but have you read any economics textbook? it makes perfect sense to try to vote with your wallet against a dictatorship.

Reading economics should help someone realize that there is something called competition and in order to be successful you should be competitive, do research and development.

A few Spaniards conquered a continent in a few years because they were more competitive than the natives.

Complaining is never going to help, hard, focused work will.

It's not that they are "bad guys for making good stuff cheaply" it's that every dollar sent to China is another dollar used to oppress and abuse innocent people. It is another dollar in favor of an inhumane dictatorship. Everyone who buys products made in China must certainly know this on some basic level. By the size of the American-Chinese trade deficit consumers are largely ok with this.

Some of us are not ok with supporting dictatorships.

> it's that every dollar sent to China is another dollar used to oppress and abuse innocent people

I could say the same from the US

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