re: #228 Racer X

LVQ, I agree with you. America screwed up. We went for the best price on stuff. China had it and we went for it. There have been many “buy American” campaigns over the years. They are largely ignored due to the costs of American goods.

America has higher labor costs. Unions?
America has tighter environmental restrictions. Good thing.
America has higher corporate taxes. Bad thing.

Supply and demand works. I’m not saying China is good or America is bad. We can fix America and be environmentally conscious. It’s gonna require sacrifice.

This is utter bullshit.

America did not go for the best price on things - for the consumer. Oviously buying three things that need to be regularly replaced, makes more profit than buying one thing that lasts.

America did not go for the best price with China. American corporations, which were the most successful in world history after the Second World War, wanted even more short term profit, and they achieved this by destroying American industry and giving it to nations that don’t give a damn if workers die, if the environment is destroyed or if children do the labor.

There is such a thing as morality here too. We are getting our karma here for being so easily and blindly seduced by cheap materialism in this culture.