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by selfhoster1312 21 days ago
I can assure you many companies pushing junk are based here in France. Actual manufacturing may take place in China for many products, but Decathlon, Leroy Merlin and Carrefour certainly have executives and engineers here. Those executives and engineers pushing negative externalities to local consumers on one side, and to producers with bad social/ecological standards in foreign lands.

To be clear, i'm not against foreign products. But a french exec deciding to employ quasi-slave labor and destroy the environment on the other side of the world to maximize profits should 100% be jailed. That's already technically a crime.