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You’re right, Spktyr.

My wife is giving me a hard time over this. She says I should have gone to our local running shoe store and bought the same shoes made in the USA even if for a little more money given Vietnam’s frankly terrible record of child labor of over 70 hours per week and their paltry salaries of mere pennies for that work. And that unless the shoes are prefect they won’t even be paid that. This too given the fact that US manufacturers are struggling to keep tarriffs in place which they need lest their whole businesses are farmed out to foreign competition.

I guess I’ve let a second trip to Vietnam in 2000 blind me to what’s really going on there vis-a-vis their labor markets. Though I’m still glad I made that trip with my daughter. But I guess some of the imagery was a bit too sureal.

Though live and learn: I won’t make the same mistakes again. I’ve got a great wife!