In my opinion Temu and Shein are examples of Chinese companies picking up shitty western business practices and taking them to their logical conclusion. Amazon

In my opinion Temu and Shein are examples of Chinese companies picking up shitty western business practices and taking them to their logical conclusion. Amazon already resembles AliExpess thanks to hundreds of drop shipping "brands" - Temu just consolidates all this activity. Western "fast fashion" brands already exploit and abuse cheap foreign labor, Shein just shaves down the margins. None of this is really new, Temu and Shein just take a little less margin for themselves than the hundreds of small drop-shippers operating on Amazon or companies like The Gap so they can compete on price. I agree that this is, broadly-speaking, bad, but it has also been going on for a long time. Before Amazon, WalMart was hocking cheaply made stuff and driving mom & pop shops out of business. The one positive here is that Temu/Shein are much more explicit about what they are. It's one thing to spend $5 on a pair of shoes made with child labor. It's entirely another to buy shoes made under similar conditions for $100 because of marketing/branding.