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Csn we justify purchasing cheap SE Asisn goods and so re-enforce the sweat shop culture that was rife in late Victorian London?

Geoffrey51 8 Aug 11
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Whenever there is trade, both parties benefit. China has a surplus of labor to offer the world and everyone benefits from that labor. If the workers in China become unhappy they’ll quit. Remember that their cost of living is based on their own local economy. What might seem like a pittance to us might work well for them.

Most of the goods I’ve seen from China are inexpensive by some standards but they are not cheaply made. Much of it is top quality.

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No but try to buy a shirt made in the USA or most other clothes. 60 minutes had a show showing Saks Fifth Ave womans suit that sold for $1500 that cost $31 to make, most of which was the cloth.We have little available to us to fight the new robber barons who own these shops and will not return operations to the USA where costs would be higher.

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OK ...out on a limb here.. I’ve been as depressed and disgusted as most wandering through about any store and finding little more than ‘made in China’ ..shit. Granted, the ignorant shop at Walmart, and that’s what they sell … as does (China) Harbor Freight with ‘tools.’ So, what if trump’s trade wars forced stuff to again be manufactured in the USA, for example? Is ‘this’ the level of pain & chaos necessary to reverse the flow of goods..?

Perhaps, thinks I… but, as with everything ‘USA’ - nothing is permanent; there is no cohesiveness to our presidential administrations, or congress for that matter.. So the pain, angry former business partners and world wide confusion instigated by what had better be a one-term-president … is and will be wasted..? A footnote in history, a sick blip or embarrassing moment for our nation … as opposed to the beginning of a turn-around in manufacturing where ‘Americans’ once again produce and consume their own products…

I suspect the former, with an honest pull toward the latter..

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