Regardless of the merits of tariffs and protectionism, it is IMO quite necessary that these kinds of companies, that churn out cheap garbage with no regard for pollution be punitively targeted. Not only does it ruin our planet, but it also undermines those businesses who actually try to produce decent products.
Ideally big corps that simply import and resell these types of products (either through willful ignorance or malicious intent) shouldn’t get away either, and need to be held accountable.
I have definitely received products from Temu (where I no longer shop) that just fell apart almost immediately. No exaggeration. They were so bad that I felt embarrassed that some Chinese person had given their time and effort into manufacturing such useless pieces of crap. So yeah; hard agree.
Don’t feel too bad. I’m sure that the Chinese 6 year old who made your product didn’t try very hard and was punished appropriately.
If they were not medically sterilized, then I demand redress.
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I have never ordered from Temu because the first time I heard of them, it was an ad for a weird-as-fuck product and I clicked through and the product wasn’t something they were selling. And then it happened a second time. And then I gave up. This is apparently perfectly legal in the U.S.
I think I clicked a link for them once and it gave some bs you win wheel, and told me to download an app right off the bat. Hard pass
but it also undermines those businesses who actually try to produce decent products.
Seriously. There are people who’s entire job is to make sure that businesses that try to raise standards are never successful.
People are punished for not going along with a ‘new normal’ where everything sucks and we need to buy replacements for everything every 2 years.
Once upon a time, it wasn’t normal to have sponsored ads in the middle of youtube videos. But one by one, any moderately successful channel gets contacted by someone saying they can make more money if they sacrifice the quality and integrity of their videos by putting ads in the middle. They are rewarded for collectively lowering everyone else’s standards.
This has been going on for generations. It’s a science at this point.
Tariffs are a bad thing.
They make domestic production artificially competitive by raising the prices of foreign goods and passing that cost onto the working class.
Tariffs exist so your ruling class can make more money off of you without putting in more effort.
