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Being in that business, the cost of import fees, transportation adds cost to the product and any saving on labor is ate up in handling charges and tariffs.
Plus it takes 12 weeks from China plus port delays. as long as it take customs to process a container.
Why did refrigerators once have 5 year warranties as standard while now only have 6 month warranties?
They were made cheap with cheap labor and very low profit until the competition was eliminated. Now they are just as expensive as better ones would be while still being poorly made.
The price point may not lie with the Chinese, for example, but the distributer instead.
Note: Cars are lasting far longer than in the past.
I'm talking about everything else you buy, from your appliances to your clothes, it's all cheap crap that doesn't last like they used to. Why do you think warranties have gotten shorter like you said in your thread? It's because they know it's going to break and they want you to buy a new one.
Free trade benefits the consumer more than it can possibly benefit the worker because of;
Our goal must be a day when the free flow of trade, from the tip of Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic Circle, unites the people of the Western Hemisphere in a bond of mutually beneficial exchange[/b].’’[/color] Ronald Reagan
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This is one sided managed trade by Many Big Business.
In Capitalism and Free Trade, all parties must have a say in it, workers, business owners and citizens
The Workers have had no say in these Trade Agreements required under Capitalism
I'm talking about everything else you buy, from your appliances to your clothes, it's all cheap crap that doesn't last like they used to. Why do you think warranties have gotten shorter like you said in your thread? It's because they know it's going to break and they want you to buy a new one.
We can make cheap disposable crap here also. Or we once could until the manufacturing plants were run out of business.
This is one sided managed trade by Many Big Business.
In Capitalism and Free Trade, all parties must have a say in it, workers, business owners and citizens
The Workers have had no say in these Trade Agreements required under Capitalism
Yes they have.......they have had a say with their votes that they refuse to hold politicians accountable with. Yes, I realize this wasn't the point you are making but they most certainly have a way to have a say but refuse to exercise it.
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