[prolikewh0a]

>Filling our landfills full of disposable products?

This is rampant capitalistic consumerism, nothing to do with China.

>Copying our IP?

Doesn't really matter. Who do IP's benefit? Not the consumer, only the already super wealthy. Hint: the very large majority of the world is not wealthy.

Taxes went up on products from Aliexpress. Shipping from China to USA is much more efficient than the other way around.

When I'm subsidizing health insurance, food stamps, and medicare on Walmart, Amazon, Starbucks, etc, to put billions more in Bezos pocket, I could care less about something that actually benefits lower income people with affordable products that would be well out of reach in USA. Raise wages and people who were using Aliexpress will start buying domestic.

[guitarbill]

> Who do IP's benefit? Not the consumer, only the already super wealthy. Hint: the very large majority of the world is not wealthy.

I'm no fan of copyright or software patents, but that's a bit too simple. Good R&D is complicated and favours highly educated/skilled workers. Even if you don't like companies, it's quite unfair that people who have have spent a long time becoming domain experts should lose their livelihood because of outside forces breaking the law - international law mind (AFAIK).