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Really this is about increasing demand and not supply. Americans need to be trained to not want cheap shit. They need to learn to value stuff like repairability
by vinceguidry 10y ago
Really this is about increasing demand and not supply. Americans need to be trained to not want cheap shit. They need to learn to value stuff like repairability and durability. Americans need to want things that only Americans can make. As long as they want stuff that can be made by the dozen, then they're just going to get all that from the cheapest maker.
- sanderjd 10y agoThis seems like a diffuse cost / concentrated benefit problem to me. It will be an uphill battle to get a large number of people to pay more for things in order to benefit a relatively small group of those employed in making those things. This doesn't even really work for local face-to-face service work where the benefit to the local community is fairly obvious, let alone for manufacturers largely located in completely different states.