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> The customer gets the exact same thing, only made somewhere else. That’s not exactly the same thing: buying one item gives support to producers in the origin
by alkonaut 5y ago
> The customer gets the exact same thing, only made somewhere else.
That’s not exactly the same thing: buying one item gives support to producers in the original location while buying the other product doesn’t. I’m sure an American company (or Australian Greeks) could make a better product, but the actual physical product itself is just half the story.
- golemotron 5y agoExcept when the 'local thing' is a local business owned and/or financed by a multinational. It's the easiest way to get around such things and it happens all the time.
- alkonaut 5y agoIt’s not the small scaledness or local ownership that’s protected. It’s the tradition of making X in the region where X is traditionally made, and some of the how it’s made. Nothing else.