• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    I’m American. I rarely buy American. Almost everything is Chinese, Japanese, European, or something else.

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      21 hours ago

      Why buy from the US anyways? Anything quality is expensive as hell, and the rest is either trash consumer grade (read: shitty) products designed by a capitalist more than an engineer, or imported.

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        11 hours ago

        We do have exports that people wanted prior. Bourbon, corn, guitars, etc. We have major brands, agricultural products, and other categories that are purchased abroad.

        Take a look at the export list. Stuff is there.

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          10 hours ago

          Oh, I didn’t say we had no exports. I said other places make better stuff. (at least for anything that’s not ridiculously expensive in order to pay proper American craftsmen a skilled job’s wage)

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            10 hours ago

            So the corn exports are… Worse?

            Where else can you get Bourbon whisky?

            I was trying to demonstrate that your point is sort of juvenile. American products being expensive? Sure. Are there things you can’t get elsewhere? Yes. Is everything produced domestically probably worse? That one is just remarkably stupid.