One photo shows how China destroyed US manufacturing

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[kanawa]

Shopping at Walmart looking for boots not made in China...

Looking for boots/shoes in Walmart
Made in China.... 😐
Made in China.... 🤨
Made in China.... 😕
Made in China.... 😣
Made in China.... 😖
Made in China.... 😡
Made in China.... 🤬
Made in Cambodia.... 😲😍😀😁👍👍

[Sequoyah101]

Out here on the farm I have invented a few time saving, effort reducing things and made prototypes. People that see most of them ask why I don’t patent them and have them made for sale. One word: China.

[Sequoyah101]

Once upon a time we got hemostats from India. The instant you picked them up you could tell they were inferior They were dimensional copies only, the rest was junk.

[heartwood]

Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs.

[Bulwyf]

Haha, decent post, well played.

[joe fonebone]

I hate to burst your bubble, but the biggest cost to American manufacturing is not labor...

It’s government regulations and beurocracy....

[ETCM]

So China's business model is to be a slave colony for the U.S. That doesn't bode well for U.S. workers, but I'm not sure what the upside is for China.

They want our grandchildren and great grandchildren to be slave labor for Chinese mega-corporations. The Chinese will complain about crappy phone support with terrible American accents, and stupid Americans giving fake Chinese names. "Hi, my name is Zhou. How may I assist you today?".

[Alberta's Child]

I don’t know if the consumer really “loses” in the example you gave. I see more and more examples of durable consumer products that used to be considered once-in-a-lifetime or twice-in-a-lifetime purchases turned into what is basically a product with a 5-8 year life cycle.

The life cycle didn’t shrink because the quality declined. It was the other way around: the quality declined because the price the consumer was willing to pay declined … since the consumer didn’t intend to keep it for a long time. I see this with appliances all the time. When I moved into my last home the previous occupant sold the washer and dryer to me for $100 because he didn’t want to go through the hassle of moving them. They were still working fine when I moved out 15+ years later … and I gave them to the next owner for free because I didn’t want to go through the trouble of moving them, either.

[woodbutcher1963]

I went to the Westminster Kennel Club show last weekend. All of their WKC merchandise was made in Bangladesh.

[discostu]

What’s nefarious about that? They’re knives, they ain’t technical, they ain’t hard. The way to make them profitably is scale, crank out a bunch quick.

[Garth Tater]

"Why should an American worker get $25 an hour when someone in another country will do the same work for $6?"

Because we as a country have decided to socialize the cost of keeping our living environment healthy and our old and infirm from dying in the streets. Import tariffs prevent hellholes, whose rulers care nothing about their environment or their people, from undercutting our manufacturers and eventually and inevitably putting them out of business. Free trade is a nation killer.


"At the end of the day, the US is just another country."

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[PIF]

Sell product in the US at a price that severely undercuts US competition and forces the majority of hard goods manufacturers out of business.

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Next step buy the company when its forced out of business or at least buy all their blueprints, specs, dies and tooling

[woodbutcher1963]

Try buying a Speed Queen washing machine. Still made in USA.
They are still very simple. You can even buy a dryer with a knob you turn to set the cycle. No board to die after 5-6 years.

Whirlpool, Amana, Maytag, Kitchen Aid are all made in Iowa. All in the same factory. They just put different labels on them depending on how fancy they are.
My 8 year old fridge says Whirlpool on the outside of the door and Maytag on the inside.

[setter]

A relative works for a company that makes an electrical product in the US.

They messed up and made a defect on the circuit board but bypassed that area and kept the defect as it did not hurt anything.

The chinese copied their product even down to the defect on the circuit board.

[escapefromboston]

Union or non-union American labor can’t compete with foreign countries that pay their workers pennies what anyone in America would make.

[Sam Gamgee]

??? I don’t know what data you are looking at but appliances have leaped in retail price. Use to pay about $500 for an oven and now the average oven is around $1100. Home Depot has tons in the $4000 dollar range. So it is the reverse. Pay more and get less.

[drSteve78]

Nothing to show for unionizing but lost jobs and empty mills.

——My youngest brother has an Automatic Transmission business in SC and was looking to expand. He was offered a great deal for a place too big, too far, and full of boxes of BUTTONS. He sent us a few small boxes as a gift joke.

[drSteve78]

but I’m not sure what the upside is for China.
-—Slave people in Misery that aren’t dead yet.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

For a hundred years it has not been called “A Chinese Copy” for no reason.

Remember the junk we got from Japan after WW II, 1946 till about 1967!

[drSteve78]

We used to make money......... 😢

-——and we used to make sense. (No pun intended)