re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

we are about to see how much globalization really costs.

it is all posited on instant availability

Not just instant availability, but cost as well.

For example, I could likely never afford the desktop computer I’m using if the components weren’t made in China; that’s just a sad reality. Nor could I afford my mobile phone if weren’t (almost entirely) made in China.

Unless governments are willing to subsidize the costs to consumers for non-Chinese-made products, China is going to be the world’s factory for the foreseeable future.

And of course, there are those who would say, “Well, you don’t really need Product XYZ” - which is the same as telling people, “Well, guess you just can’t have nice things, sorry about that”.

Good luck to those folks….though I think they might find themselves a little bewildered when they find themselves the guests of honor at an impromptu “necktie party”.