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“No more cheap Chinese or Vietnamese goods at Amazon or Walmart; “ Sounds like paradise to me.
by bamboozled 4y ago
“No more cheap Chinese or Vietnamese goods at Amazon or Walmart; “
Sounds like paradise to me.
- belltaco 4y agoAnd hell for all the people that aren't rich and have middle or low income.
- chordalkeyboard 4y agothose people can have a higher income because they can get a domestic manufacturing job; its the people who aren't working and rely on subsidized social programs and welfare who would have to take the hit.
- bamboozled 4y agoI think they’d have more money not spending it on useless junk ?
- uni_rule 4y agoBeing too poor to save for high quality things that don't need to be replaced as often is a tax within itself. That's part of why poverty is considered "cyclical".
- bamboozled 4y agoThere's a lot of good second hand things for very cheap available. See my other comment about coffee makers, for example. What screws people without money is the expensive once off things that just always crop up. I have a decent job and I feel the burn, especially now with inflation, a once off surprise expensive can be deadly lately. The accidental parking fines, the expensive medical bill, the new car tyre, the more expensive electricity etc. This IMO is more likely to create cyclical poverty than the ability to buy cheap things from Walmart(TM).
- stonogo 4y ago"Useless junk" like food? I don't think you have a clear picture of what people buy at Wal-mart.
- bamboozled 4y agoFood is not useless junk though
- astrange 4y agoAsian produced goods aren't cheap plastic junk; they're better than American made because they're better at doing it and have all the support and supply chains there. You can't get something the quality of a smartphone or mirrorless camera assembled in the US for the quality you can in Thailand for any amount of money. Shenzhen is just better at electronics than we are. Of course, America does produce some of the components going into them, just like Japan and Korea and the UK do.
- Kye 4y agoPeople who buy a new $10 coffee maker every 6-12 months when the last one clogs up would have to learn to clean them.
- mickdeek86 4y agoIt's expensive to be cheap
- bamboozled 4y agoThis
- dane-pgp 4y agoA bigger concern is that it's expensive to be poor. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2015/09/03/its-expensive-to-be-poor https://www.economist.com/united-states/2015/09/03/its-expen...
- mickdeek86 4y agoThat article is about financial exploitation (a very real problem for which Bernie had a great solution - offer basic retail banking at the post office), not about inexpensive, sh*tty consumer goods.
- dane-pgp 4y agoThe problem is, the poor can only afford the inexpensive goods, so they are "cheap" (i.e. they make cost-inefficient purchases) through lack of choice.
- WalterBright 4y agoThe coffee makers are now $30.
- bamboozled 4y agoYou just adapt, I can make great coffee with a 40 year old Italian Moka Pot that I can get for $5 at a second hand store and will last 200 years or more.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoNot if you are paying 10x for the same quality.