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RE: THE BIGGER PICTURE IS...

Posted by Time_Stands_Still (A) on July 6, 2012 at 15:11:28

In Reply to: VPI Traveler made in the USA posted by HW on July 6, 2012 at 13:52:28:

Here is the issue. All too many of you/us consumers (and not just in the USA but most of the western world) are bitchy about price of things. Walmart parking lots are full of mindless consumers who spend thousands of dollars per year buying crap. Not just the cheapest stuff, but crap they/we have little to no need nor really wanted to buy anyways.

We have been and get brainwashed to shop, shop, shop and also on the flip side to bitch if something is $1.00 more than we each think it should be. We then bitch about lost manufacturing jobs while we load up out fat, lazy a$$es into our typically over sized vehicles to get down to mostly the now 24 hour opened Wal Marts (and similar type stores) just to piss the few bucks we have away buying the latest cheap crap made mostly in China. OBTW, I'm not really blaming China per se (it's a developing nation with now a progressing working class) but more so the greedy corporate world which gladly exploits their cheap labour and then pushes us western consumers to SHOP, SHOP, SHOP. LOAD UP ON MORE CRAP!

IMO, generally the wisest shoppers and likely those with the most cash in reserves and least amount of carried debt to income are those who cut through much of the brainwashing consumerism and more often shop on value and not really price. More of them justify purchases with careful prudence and not just mindless shopping to get MORE STUFF ERR, CRAP!

It's mostly our fault folks that less consumer goods are made in better paying, better living western, with better social safety nets nations.

Let me ask you all here. It is said that the latest Apple iPhone (I'm not picking on Apple, Lord knows other companies are much worse but only using it as an example to fill my question) would cost about $50.00 more if it were to be made in the USA rather than in China. How many of you especially you Wally World shoppers (many who almost live in one of their stores) would pay that difference if given the choice between the two phones? Oh sure, it's easy to say "I'd pay $50.00 more to get one made in the USA." But in reality I'd bet most consumers will pick the Made In China one and pocket the $50.00 to just later waste on some other crap at the local mall or discount store.

I'm not preaching as if I was not ever guilty of this, but dammit I'm doing my best as I continue to mature in life to learn more about prudent consumerism and shopping based more on real value TO ME and not just blind, idiot, price shopping and loading up on more crap I typically have little or no need for.

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