You can request a quote and start building a generational relationship with sales reps to get samples in few years at 500x cost before 300% new customer premium. Or you can upload a file to blunt but honest Chinese Web interface and get it thrown into your doorstep in 5 working days. Manufacturing in developed countries are either working or broken depending on how you think about that.

Current form of capitalism coupled with constant inflation universally penalize work: it makes less work at higher charges under the guise of better value a local individual optimum. This isn't a problem according to some justifications, or less work is less work if you ask some others.

China hasn't gotten to that point of constant output reduction and price hikes. Their manufacturing is still working in that sense.