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Re:Inside The Fine Art Factories of Yiwu, China by lifeisstillgood on Monday November 21, 2016 @11:17AM (#13006520) 

  China has economies of scale on a scale that the economists who coined the term economies of scale never imagined.
About twenty years ago this painting-from-a-photo-from_china was a thing, when you could get franchises to sell on in the UK.
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Re:Inside The Fine Art Factories of Yiwu, China by TorKlingberg on Monday November 21, 2016 @12:48PM (#13007308)
It may be that painting-from-a-photo is a fad that will quickly become uncool, then it takes 20 years for a new generation to grow up not knowing about it.
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