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Re:Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling ... by mickdeek86 on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:13PM (#33147385)
It's expensive to be cheap
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Re:Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling ... by bamboozled on Monday October 10, 2022 @12:15AM (#33147725)
This
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Re:Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling ... by dane-pgp on Monday October 10, 2022 @05:35AM (#33149469)
A bigger concern is that it's expensive to be poor.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2015/09/03/its-expen...

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Re:Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling ... by mickdeek86 on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:52PM (#33159334)
That article is about financial exploitation (a very real problem for which Bernie had a great solution - offer basic retail banking at the post office), not about inexpensive, sh*tty consumer goods.
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Re:Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling ... by dane-pgp on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @12:13AM (#33159437)
The problem is, the poor can only afford the inexpensive goods, so they are "cheap" (i.e. they make cost-inefficient purchases) through lack of choice.
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