The companies put the products in front of you, but the consumers made the decision to abandon domestically made goods.
A decade ago, these companies used loopholes to keep telling us everything was still made in America.
This is the crux of any analysis based on personal choice. It comes with the arrogant presumption that capitalism is based on consent.
I’ve always said, “American job should pay American wages” as in Chinese workers need to get paid in dollars and minimum wage or more also it’s on the company to convert that for them.
That being said America lost ground on quality… check out China’s CFMoto making a v4 motorcycle… check out a Surron… Chinese quality exceeds American manufacturing now… because they train their workers with junk y’all buy on AliExpress, Wish, and I think the new one is Temu or some shit. They can now make the quality of CFMoto and Surron.
Chinese workers need to get paid in dollars
Chinese workers trying to buy groceries in USD:
They don’t even use Chinese cash, its all digital.