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Would You Pay More?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 1000 Words, China, Economy, Money

Even though I believe in global markets, I would.

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4 Responses to “Would You Pay More?”

gerryf Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Would you? Really? I find very few people who do and the challenge is daunting.

I am wearing a pair of tennis shoes right now that were assembled in the USA from materials imported from China. and that is the best I can do.

I spent the better part of an hour looking in three stores in a mall for a can opener made in the USA

MY U.S. car was made in Canada, but I could have bought a foreign brand made in Michigan…which would have been preferable?

I shop in local stores when I can, but these big box stores have killed most of them

What was the last thing you (anyone) did — I am curious…
Jim S Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
And it’s not even a matter of global markets. Wal-Mart has actually told vendors to quit making things in the U.S. and ship manufacturing jobs to China. In other cases they bullied their vendors into pricing so low that shutting down U.S. operations was the only way to meet their demands and they dominate the U.S. retail market so much that the vendor had no choice. And Wal-Mart, the company that used to advertise their Made-in-the-USA products, knew it.
Jimmy the Dhimmi Says:
September 5th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Would You Pay More?

Only if the quality of the goods was significantly better.

When I shop, I don’t do so for the purpose of lining the pockets of some “local market” capitalist with my hard earned money. I want to sqeeze the most out of my dollar to better the lives of myself and my family by purchasing quality products for the lowest prices. If I have to cut my budget elsewhere just so I could afford the higher prices at a local market, then I would suffer some sort of loss in my quality of life, correct? Why should this local fat-cat business owner profit off of my sufferring? =P

P.S. Kudos to Gerryf for supporting the local economies of various communities throughout China, by participating in a global market so that unskilled, uneducated people there can have an opportunity for employment that didn’t exist for them before. God knows they need those jobs more than we do.
bnvucokityci Says:
November 13th, 2007 at 3:42 am
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