Isn’t nearly every tech worker on this forum using an apple product ‘Designed in California’ but actually made in china
That's kind of a straw man argument. Go pick up every single cord, speaker, lamp, etc. in your house and look at the label.
That low quality shit that lasts a year is what I am talking about. Furniture used to be handed down for generations. Now, if you move apartments twice it falls apart.
Back when I was in full time education, my summer holiday job was making HVAC on a production line. The transformers I screwed into backing plates came from China.
The furniature you complain of? The furniature I have comes mostly from Ikea, which is famously not Chinese.