We Are The Consumers…

Why do we (US) have to shoulder the weight of econ. growth of other nations?

We support their growth quite willingly by being mass consumers of cheap products. For many in the USA, it’s a matter of keeping up with the neighbors and valuing quantity over quality.

If we make it ourselves, in the short term, it appears to cost more. i.e. a fan imported from China may cost $34.93 at Walmart, you probably can’t even find an American made fan anymore, and if you do, a large room size fan with current feature likely isn’t $34.

Sadly, in many cases we’re short sighted on it, we aren’t willing to pay $44 for a fan, but were perfectly willing to pay $34 every year or two and often look at many of the purchases in terms of lasting a year…