[apercu]

Yep, I buy an iPhone "all day" from China.

That's kind of a straw man argument. Go pick up every single cord, speaker, lamp, etc. in your house and look at the label.

That low quality shit that lasts a year is what I am talking about. Furniture used to be handed down for generations. Now, if you move apartments twice it falls apart.

[watwut]

The furniture used to stay in place and net be moved around distances all that much. Due to being heavy and difficult to transport. And impossible to disassemble and reassemble.

[ben_w]

The cost of all the tech bought in a year is not insignificant.

Back when I was in full time education, my summer holiday job was making HVAC on a production line. The transformers I screwed into backing plates came from China.

The furniature you complain of? The furniature I have comes mostly from Ikea, which is famously not Chinese.

[chucksmash]

Ikea may be famously Swedish, but are they making my ROCKSJÖN and my EKENÄSET in Stockholm?