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A huge swath of the consumer market in physical products is Chinese goods. Why would your average nontechnical, fairly apolitical, non-foreign policy or intelli
by __jal 7y ago
A huge swath of the consumer market in physical products is Chinese goods. Why would your average nontechnical, fairly apolitical, non-foreign policy or intelligence news following person draw a distinction?
They see a fun app, they play with it. If they're even aware of censorship issues or geopolitical power games, that seems very distant from some app that amuses them for a few minutes a day.
- cartoonworld 7y agoThis so much. Few consumers know this fact, and fewer care. Everyone knows the stuff they buy is manufactured in China, and the old timers holding weird grudges from the 1970s are long gone. There is no economic incentive for anyone to bring this up at any time during any transaction.
- cwkoss 7y agoI'm trying to avoid Chinese manufactured goods where possible. Does anyone know of good online resources for looking up companies which don't have China in their supply chain? I've found sites that do "made in america" generally, but ideally I'd like a site that allows something like "sort by distance to manufacturer" - I'd like to preferentially support businesses proportionally to how geographically local they are. Would also be interested in sites that have some sort of curated directory of companies that have good labor relations, quality controls, environmental impact, etc.