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But they will pay for said weapon via the net economic extraction some boomer provided paying $300 instead of $400 for his lawn mower
by zionic 6y ago
But they will pay for said weapon via the net economic extraction some boomer provided paying $300 instead of $400 for his lawn mower
- aparsons 6y agoWhy boomer? Are millennials or any other generation looking forward to paying more to avoid Chinese-made products?
- clpm4j 6y agoAs a millennial, I go to pretty significant lengths to avoid Chinese-made products and gladly pay quite a bit more to do so. I'm personally very aligned with Taiwan independence.
- hu3 5y agoCool. What phone do you use?
- Hedepig 5y ago> ...I go to pretty significant lengths to avoid Chinese-made product... Not sure where I saw them say > I don't buy Chinese-made products
- hu3 5y agoNeither did I. What's your point?
- f1refly 5y agoNo, what's your point?
- hu3 5y agoif it wasn't clear already, same as TeMPOraL. Do you have a point? Instead of this meaningless conversation I'd kindly suggest you use your majorly Chinese made phone and laptop to reply to that message instead. If you have something to add that is.
- Craighead 5y agooof
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- Hedepig 5y agoYes okay then, I confess to being pre-emptive As already asked, what point are you trying to make?
- hu3 5y agoif it wasn't clear already, same as TeMPOraL. Do you have a point? Instead of this meaningless conversation I'd kindly suggest you use your majorly Chinese made phone and laptop to reply to that message instead. If you have something to add that is.
- Hedepig 5y agoNo, it wasn't clear, maybe it's a reflection my own insight, I can only apologise for jumping the gun. It appeared to me as if you were making an attack on the sentiment of reducing Chinese purchases, because the replier obviously can't be avoiding Chinese brands completely because he uses a mobile phone.
- hu3 5y agoOh. Yea we were talking past each other in this case but we do agree. I'm should have written in a more comprehensive manner about how pervasive Chinese manufacturing is on our daily lives.
- Hedepig 5y agoAs I say, it was, at least in part, my fault for jumping the gun by reading what doesn't exist between the lines. And yes, it is nigh impossible to escape unless we are willing to live as we did 100+ years ago Have a good day.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoWonder what the lengths are. Anything that you can share, particularly that could scale to more people? Serious question. I wouldn't even know how to approach it. China is the world's factory - throw a dart at a random non-food storefront, and anything it hits was almost surely made entirely or in part in China. Hell, a quite a lot of locally-made products get packaged in China. I personally know of local producers in Poland that send their products to China to be packaged there and sent back - it turns out it's much cheaper to do that, even accounting for multi-month round trip on a container ship, than to pay locals to do the packaging...
- shakezula 6y agoIt annoys me to no end that boomers sent all of our manufacturing overseas to make a quick buck and then turned around and criticized the “globalism” of the economy that they created, so yes. I gladly would pay a little more for quality, domestically produced goods. Technology has progressed far enough that the costs would be minimal in most cases.
- retrac 6y agoMany of that generation honestly believed market capitalism went hand in hand with the spread of liberal ideology, and that trade with China would ultimately bring about an end to the Communist Party. Maybe that was just a convenient excuse, but I believed it when I was younger.
- randomopining 6y agoHonestly that's where a strong guiding government comes in. Since we know that the free market is a race to the bottom... they knew the money would go for the highest return in China. The US government in the 70's, 80's, and especially 90's should've known that the CCP was playing a game and a long game at that. No doubt they had surveillance on high level communications. Knowing they were playing the long game, they should've had strict laws that were basically limiting the US 1 for 1. ex. For every US student that studies PhD in China, one Chinese student can come here. What happened was that thousands of Chinese learned about the highest levels of physics and technology at our universities and then used that information back in China to build hypersonic missiles that will be used to destroy our carrier fleets in a few years. As well as medium range missiles to destroy Taiwan.
- triceratops 6y ago> The US government in the 70's, 80's, and especially 90's should've known that the CCP was playing a game They were blinded by their ideology, which told them that capitalism is inseparable from freedom and democracy. And bringing the first to China would bring the other 2 as well. > For every US student that studies PhD in China, one Chinese student can come here. Were there a lot of US students lining up to go to Chinese universities in the 70s and 80s? How would that even work? > thousands of Chinese learned about the highest levels of physics and technology at our universities If they could learn it at universities, was it really all that secret?
- refurb 6y agoEvery generation needs it's whipping boy/girl and for the current crop of middle-agers it's boomers. That's why.
- analognoise 5y agoWe don't consider having more cheap crap more important than not supporting ethnic cleansing, I guess?
- cannabis_sam 5y agoMilliennials in general don’t have lawns to mow maybe?