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Why are you buying shit from China?
by whackernews 1y ago
Why are you buying shit from China?
- striking 1y agoWhy, don't you? How would you have posted this message if you hadn't?
- whackernews 1y agoYou got me. I buy old second hand phones because the planet is full of mugs.
- skylurk 1y agoWhere are you getting your shit from?
- tclancy 1y agoI have a deal with Cologuard.
- whackernews 1y agoDown the road where I can.
- Mashimo 1y agoApparently it's even hard to make molds in the US. China seems to be the top dog in the production chain. From design, to mold, to production, to packaging. Fstopper has one or two nice videos about it. Can't even buy US made glass bottles that fits his needs in the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xewpuM1eJRg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xewpuM1eJRg
- lm28469 1y agoIt cuts the middleman, supermarkets and online stores are 90% Chinese dropship these days. Why pay the 50-500% markup?
- whackernews 1y agoI have no idea what you’re talking about. What the heck are you people buying?! I mean, after some pots and pans and a couple of t-shirts what else is there?
- lm28469 1y agoI'm very frugal but I buy some electronic parts every now and then, last time I bought a titanium hiking pot, $12 instead of like $50 locally, same factory, the only difference is that the brand is not stamped on it
- jrflowers 1y agoI am delighted to hear from the actual FedEx’s own Chuck Noland! Getting this post to appear on this website using only vellum and iron gall ink is an incredible feat. Could you share some about your process (in many months time obviously)?
- jrflowers 1y agoSee this can be the issue with posting on the internet without directly using Chinese-built electronics: you have to periodically remind your seneschal what your various shorthand terms mean or they will make mistakes like forgetting what “ctrl+D” means and assuming you meant “downvote” and not “bookmark”
- ilikerashers 1y agoI've started buying clothes from China. Quality and style is starting to really improve. Makes you wonder how much we've been ripped off for years.
- skeeter2020 1y agoAs a 6'5" male westerner finding the right size is next to impossible.
- ryoshoe 1y agoWhile you can't go off the standard S M L sizing scale, if you know your measurements you should be able to find something suitable
- whackernews 1y agoRipped off? I think it’s more that you are ripping off people from other countries, whilst undermining your own economy and draining your country of meaningful work. It’s nice to pay your neighbour properly for the work they do. How much clothes are you actually buying and why? The clothing industry is a horrible one, riddled with waste and slavery. You been to the factory where they’re making your clothes have you? Wake up man. This shit matters.
- everdrive 1y agoIt's very difficult if not impossible to avoid. Just how many hours do you want to spend doing research for _every single_ household item? It'd be genuinely difficult, and even plenty of stuff which claims to be "made in the USA" is actually just assembled here. It's possible to look these things up, but that takes time and it's difficult to get absolute certainty. And not all stuff from China is terrible, either. It's just an opportunity cost which is nearly impossible to avoid given just how common so much of the crap from China is. A normal person who doesn't want to upend their life might have a few easier baby-steps: buy as little stuff as possible, and buy used whenever possible. The original country doesn't see any real direct benefit when you buy used.
- ChrisGreenHeur 1y agoIts very difficult to buy something "made in china" that is actually made there, not just assembled there. Even if you get something like a DJI drone, you can do some quick research and find out the guts (SOC) is from a company in California using IP from Europe/USA (arm).
- everdrive 1y agoThat's a good point as well: where do you draw the line? If I buy a car, were the screens made in China? Is that a sufficiently small portion of the car to render it acceptable? If so, what about every remaining part in the car?
- whackernews 1y agoIt just depends how important you think it is to chose who gets your money, where raw materials are coming from and how things are made. I happen to think it’s the most important global issue right now. Come at me.
- unglaublich 1y agoIt's better quality. The people there are skilled and well-educated, and the factories and machinery are modern.
- treis 1y agoThat's partially a euhpemism for imported stuff. But more to your general meaning the point of the article is that there's not a lot of slack. The US is pretty close to fully utilized and there's not a lot of slack to start making stuff here instead.
- rangestransform 1y agowhy not? I like high quality products at reasonable prices