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Cheap Is No Bargain
- cwan 17y agoAnother elitist attempting to impose her values on the world. Her assumption is that consumers aren't able to make tradeoffs on their own but by her own admission, people who buy the cheap DVD player recognizes that it might not last - and it's not like there isn't choice in the market and the option for the consumer to buy a more expensive DVD player but they chose not to. Further, this assumption that made in the USA naturally means higher quality is bunk. As someone who does a lot of buying of machined parts, Asian sourcing is often cheaper and better in quality if you do your research. Finally, this assumption that buying cheap naturally means buying from sweatshops is simply protectionist and untrue. Nor does offshoring low end production mean that the US is losing jobs as Apple shows repeatedly - http://reason.tv/video/show/834.html http://reason.tv/video/show/834.html.