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The PROBLEM with Capitalism - Smarter Every Day 316
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Is that a problem? Why would you want something made in america in the first place. I know more people avoiding products because they are made in America rather than buying them because they are.
People who already live in America don't stop existing just because the government is garbage.
This is an overall look at macroeconomic influences and how greed/capitalism are affecting them.
From a solarpunk perspective, it makes sense to Buy it for life or buy local. This video documents the factors that make that harder and harder.
Wouldn't it make more sense not to buy a grill scrubber in the first place? Sounds like a product in search of a problem.
Had loads of BBQs over the years and not once seen something stuck to the grill in such a way that it needs to be scrubbed off.
I've never used nor know of anybody that scrubs a grill.. must be some tradition across the pond.
I just toss the grill into the fire while adding more wood on top. Get it red hot, done.
Meanwhile the ladies have cleaned and seasoned the chicken.
Add a fridge full of Estrella Galicia, and it's a good evening.
Gross. Clean your grill, bro.
I personally use a wooden one.
Fire cleans all, the few bits that don't burn off don't require scrubbing, a gentle touch with absolutely anything would work. Like a stick.
Valid point IMO. Not buying something is the better choice very often!
Sure, why waste money on toilet paper?
People with a bidet already know.
Support more local jobs and a larger variety of jobs.
If you love all manufacturing to foreign nations like china, they will be able to control the prices you pay, and various political bullshit can interfere with your producs price. Like tariffs, general trade war, weird ships getting stuck in a narrow corridor, etc
And while it have been cheaper in the 90s, prices are not that much lower than local production, these days (well, depending on whats being produced)
The us now sees china as a threat in terms of global influence, economics etc
And this is mostly caused by companies moving manufacturing to china some decades ago, when the avg chinese citizen would ride a bike to work.
And you cant move production back because the people who know how to, are dead
I live in a small country and when a large business in a small town closes down and move production out to another country, it basically kills the town. Slowly but surely, the people who worked there found jobs in other towns and moved out, fewer people means less people to keep the local small businesses alive. Local mechanics, small shops etc all close down eventually when this happens
And nobody wants to live in a small town where you gotta drive 20 minutes to another town. to buy groceries .. when youre used to just walking 10 minutes
That's kinda bullshit. China had no EV industry 15 years ago, until Tesla came over and showed them how to do it. Within a decade of Elon laughing at the idea of Chinese EVs, they caught up and passed him fast. They have done this again and again and again, usually with US investment. Apple spent more money in China than the Marshall plan, inflation corrected.
You can't move production back because:
No US manufacturing can afford US health insurance.
US manufacturing prioritizes 7 and 8, 9 figure executive compensation over R&D, the exact opposite of China.
US education is so expensive, previous STEM grads have to work in finance or die of starvation. Or become social media influencers.
You mean like America is doing?