I still buy Egyptian cotton sheets and pillow cases in high thread count. Why? Because we do not need that many sets of sheets and pillow cases plus we like them. I would pay more for made in USA “if the quality was like up to 1960-70 or so. Unfortunately, I have had my fill of the American workers work ethics and total lack of pride in their work with the exception of a plumber or an HVAC type or so. Anyone who owns a house knows how damn lazy most of these white boys are today. I am ashamed of them as I worked construction every summer when in high school. These 20-30 years olds will not leave the damn bar to paint, mow a lawn, or do anything to make money. They’d rather steal and/or draw Gov bennies.
You paint with a very broad brush, take a dim view of your countrymen and even introduce race into it.
There are far more Americans who work their @sses off and take pride in their work than there are dysfunctional substance abusers willing to work temporarily in construction for the artificially depressed wages paid to modern-day Coolies to build shoddy houses formerly sold at inflated prices, then go back on unemployment.
Shoddy construction is not limited to lazy white boys, I can tell you that much with certainty. Shoddy construction is, however, accepted by lazy and even corrupt contractors who are mostly white boys, because it’s more profitable to use idiots and green foreigners to slap it up than it is to use skilled labor.