[whatindaheck]

I completely understand wanting to support products made in countries that have treat their workers or citizens better. If I can buy something from Sweden, for example, instead of China count me in.

However the all Chinese products are crap meme needs to die. All our MacBooks and iPhone are made there. Your high-end hard shell rain jackets are all seam taped there. Arcteryx, the undisputed champion of seam taping, has successfully moved products to China. The list goes on. If anybody has weird quality problems it’s the automakers out of Detroit.

I think a lot of “crap” comes out of China because it’s easy to. It’s not worth paying American wages for garbage that falls apart. And with real wages falling in the long term, junk has supplanted quality for affordability reasons.