Most people just accept the story that things are made in China because of their cheap labor. But, that isn't the half of it. We could compete with cheap labor, but we can't compete with slave labor, shipping subsidies, bankster sweetheart loans, and the force of Mr. Global pushing this to happen.
And it is not that we are uncompetitive, it is that there is no way to compete when the game is this tilted. And it is really hard to plan for business competition when all of this is not discussed. People in the industry know that something is happening, but no one knows, outside of the CCP and the WEF what it is that is actually happening.
So, to bring back manufacturing to America, we are going to have to discuss this stuff that dives right into conspiracy theory land.
Down the rabbit hole…
Shipping Shenanigans
One thing you will notice when you are on Amazonium or ETSY, is that, China can ship the item cheaper than you can.
Often, the price of the item, from China, is less than your cost to ship it to somewhere in The US.
How can this be? Something shipped from China, and it gets here in less than a week, therefor it had to get on an airplane, and then be flown over here, get through customs, and then be handed to carrier in The US, and all that costs less than me going to UPS, USPS or FEDex to ship a similar item.
They way this can happen is that someone is paying the difference to allow Chinese goods to be shipped for less. But, who is paying? The CCP/China? The WEF? Carriers just know to charge less to Chinese sellers, or else?
It probably happens via bonds, sold to China to balance the trade deficit, and those are changed for subsidizing Chinese good shippers. Much like the agreements with Saudi Arabia with oil sold for dollars which are used to be The US bonds…
One thing is for certain, that it is impossible to compete with China on goods where it costs less to buy from China, than it costs to ship from America.
Manufacturing would have never left
It costs a lot of money to build manufacturing plants. And even more money to start training a population to be good factory workers.
Where did this money come from?
It came from banksters who offered sweetheart loans to manufacturers to move their manufacturing to China.
These same said banksters, who knew that the factory was going to shut down, pushed for factory workers to buy a home with a mortgage, knowing that they would soon be out of a job. Yes, they are quite evil, these banksters.
Without this money being poured in, it would have been too expensive to build up China so that manufacturing could be moved to China.
It is not really about cost of labor
Americans are not that expensive for skilled labor. Toyota built a truck building plant in America, because American labor was cheaper.
And China is no longer the cheap labor market. They are actually getting quite expensive in the world market.
The thing that makes America so expensive is mortgages. With extra income, you can spend more on a house. And so, the price of houses goes up and up. What else are you going to spend all that income you make on?
Basically, we have priced ourselves out of the market and all that extra money just gets paid to the banksters.
We live in a world where things are not what they seem.
Where the rots-childs of the world use our blood, sweat and tears to manipulate the world (through fractional reserve lending and usury). They take our wealth, and use it in their evil schemes.
Right now, it is to destroy America. America's usefulness is over, and the elite want to move the power center. It looks like they wanted to move it to China, but China double crossed them. The CCP has its eyes on America's farmland, and would like to take it, intact. It is their plan that they are enacting now.
The rots-childs are in a precarious position. They have already destroyed America, but have not built their new base of operations, nor have they gotten rid of Russia or Persia, their sworn enemies. So, the elite will try for all out, world war. And that will bring an end to the manipulation of the markets that has kept China in the position as the world's supplier of cheap shit.
Expect to pay more soon, a lot more for your average cheap goods. However, manufacturing will return to America. But, it will be distributed manufacturing. The big factories are over.
China seems like they are in big trouble. I saw something saying 700,000 tech workers had been laid off there and when I see these guys talking about the situation it seems like the same stuff happening here.
As for the shipping and the sell of products it is very strange for sure and I'm almost thinking a bunch of the Chinese border jumpers were actually sent over here by companies to post up and intake and reship products in the United States. I got some brake calipers from eBay and it was like a Chinese outfit but it was shipped from Chicago.
America sneezes, and China goes to ER.
You are correct, that things inside China are bad.
People won't help a woman being beaten on the street.
EV autofires are not uncommon.
Those ghost cities were sold as real estate investments. And no one lives there, and they are already crumbling. They should have made the buildings spherical, that's how many corners were cut, and that is usual.
You aren't really allowed to make money in China, cause if you do, there are people watching you.
Very bad in China.
They are being abused as much as we are.
But, we are the target of a greater abuse, from them, in their name.
I follow this guy on YouTube and I really like his vlog style through various countries. Sort of gives a candid scoop and was recently in Kazakhstan and went into China and was previously incarcerated in Russia. It's looking tough out there for a lot of people.
Also I saw some other stuff how Chinese companies set up companies in Africa and were chewing employees out drill Sargent status.
Since all state and federal prisoners in the USA are legally slaves*, and jurisdictions demonstrably lease those slaves to corporations that use them to provide labor, and that imprisoned population is higher in the US than any other nation, I very much doubt we aren't outcompeting other slave labor markets. What we cannot do is enable lawful labor markets to compete with slave labor markets the USA itself leads.
This is why bespoke local production, i.e. making the products ourselves, is how to outcompete Chiner, and every other centralized production facility.
This is exactly the reason for all economic policy. The policy that best delivers wealth to the investors that own corporations is what the bribed and blackmailed lawmakers in every country make.
It is a mystery to me how China can ship to the US for less than US manufacturers can. Amazon seems to have become an empire and Jeff Bezos one of the richest men in the world by this mysterious means. However that is accomplished we mere mortals are prevented from using that mechanism in order to facilitate the growth of Chinese manufacturing and the destruction of American manufacturing. Trump seems to be unable to address that mechanism, proposing to overwhelm it using tariffs, simply adding tax cost to the price of Chinese products replacing the mysterious shipping subsidy. It seems more and more valuable to me to understand that mechanism in view of that further demonstration of it's inability to simply be eliminated or stopped, but can only be overcome with punitive taxation.
Thanks!
Edit: *the state of Oregon has amended it's constitution removing the exception to the ban on slavery it formerly contained, mirroring the exemption in the US Constitution to the ban on slavery for those convicted of crimes. At least prisoners of the state of Oregon are not today lawfully slaves, although I am unaware that has made any actual difference in treatment of those prisoners, or the leasing of their labor to corporations.
"Oh NO, they are not slaves! We pay them $2 a day to work in the prison"
A common complaint about people who sell things on Amazonium is that if they start getting good sales, that a Chinese knockoff is soon to be there.
And the Chinese knockoff not only is cheaper, but gets better placement on Amazonium. Very strange. And it continuously happens, so it is part of the system.
Tariffs on China may be a way to balance things out. Just bringing them to level. But, i am unsure.
And China is dying. They need more food, and will probably die trying to get it.