"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark Thorson wrote:
>> John Doe wrote:
>
>>> I am surprised that so many baby products are made in China,
>>> including baby bottles, pacifiers, and teething rings.
>>> Apparently saving a few pennies has been a consumers' only
>>> concern over the last decade or so.
>
>> I doubt the savings is really passed to the consumer.
>
> They are anyway. Have a look at the prices we now pay for low
> cost consumer goods, most obviously with the lowest cost T
> shirts etc etc etc.

And only a "me first" "greed is good" "jobs Americans won't do"
(Australian) moron would not realize that sooner or later the
picnic is going to end.

>> There's a certain price people will pay for such things, and
>> you won't find these items much cheaper than that.
>
> That is just plain wrong.

Says Rod Speed, the troll extraordinaire.

> The lowest price T shirts etc are much cheaper than they used to
> be.

Made with slave labor, with the cheapest materials.

> Power tools etc in spades.

Only in a vacuum. Some of those power tools are junk.

>> I suspect Wal-Mart pockets most of the savings from moving
>> production to China.
>
> The consumer still gets much lower prices anyway.

Says the infamous nym-shifting troll.

> And its completely trivial to cut out the middle man and deal
> with the chinese directly if you want to too.

Only if you eliminated the design concerns, but then the troll
would not think of that since he knows nothing about engineering.
The problem is, besides employing slave labor, putting your fellow
countrymen out of work, and losing manufacturing capability, you
end up with garbage designs. I bought a Panasonic vacuum cleaner
not long ago that has to be the worst designed product I have ever
seen. Made in China, and probably designed in India or China too.
To further reduce costs, big companies move the design facilities
to China so that they are close to the production facilities.

And if you do not care about your fellow countrymen or using
slaves to make things for you, you might want to consider the
hazardous materials from lack of quality control.

One thing for sure, I do not want slaves to dictators who hate my
country to make my food...
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