[packagingguy]

Your picture speaks a thousand words in more ways than one. As a father of a girl I can tell you all those dolls are made in China. As a packaging engineer I can tell you those toys are in the most unsustainable, polluting packaging you can imagine. Lots of microplastics to mess up the environment for centuries.

Maybe there could be an upside to supply chain issues...we invest in additive manufacturing (eg 3D printing) and produce locally.

[cherry]

maybe we can stop buying all these toys....to do that, we have to stop having our kids in front of cartoons all day....that's where they get their "wants".....

and we adults should probably thin down our "wants" to...

[The Free Engineer]

80% of the mold, tool, and die shops we had in the 90’s are gone. Most of the people who know how to make molds, tools, and dies are retired, doing something else, or dead.
It will be quite a while to start building most things here again.