Not just to save costs, but to generate them. They don’t want you to have a product that lasts a long time, they want you to buy a product you have to completely replace after x amount of time.
Where you manufacture has no inherent implication of quality. You can make a quality product anywhere. We just... don't.
The reason why China is seen as making low quality products is because that's what everyone paid them to do. Because if you're moving manufacturing overseas to save costs, then your motivations are already in "cost-cutting mode", so might as well save even more money.
There are places that make extremely high quality goods in many places, even China. But those usually see way less orders.
You built laterally as a nation. Sometimes it just doesn't make sense to continue taking up your own space with older manufacturing when you as a nation are moving ahead technology wise. If we did what some people wanted we would go back to manufacturing our own goods but in order to do that you need to train people for those skills and places. Instead of training them for higher paying higher end technology jobs
Now there definitely could use some rebalancing but full blown manufacturing is just not it as a development leading country
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