The bottom line is that China is capitalizing on our willingness to throw stuff away.
Just think about how quickly everything in our lives becomes obsolete these days. You buy something, and chances are, three years down the road you won't even want whatever it is, even if it still works like new.
And if you buy something that's cheap, if it does break, or doesn't work, you're really not going to be bothered with returning it. It's just not worth the effort.
Even if you DID, it's certainly not going back to china!
All the chinese factories care about is making the product for a year or two, then moving onto something else. If that product fails in the field, why on earth would they care? They already got their money.
All they care about is selling as many of them as they possibly can right up front, and that's done by making them cheap. And the big profits come from making them even cheaper than spec'd once they get the contract.
And I'm not bashing China, they're just supplying what we're demanding.
We'll just keep buying the junk, and tossing it when it doesn't work. As long as it LOOKS like what we want, that's what matters. That's the step that extracts the dollar bills from our wallets. Everything after that is just noise.
If people stop buying a product because it becomes known as junk, somebody else will come along and put a fancier box around it, and get us to pay for that one.
The sad truth is that there just aren't enough of us left who NEED or DEMAND quality. These days, most americans simply don't own anything that needs to last.
Those of us with old cast iron tractors are a dying breed. We're not a very profitable market.
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