ASSEMBLED IN CHINA

On a related topic....for those of you appalled by cheap Chinese imports, I’m curious to know of you are as equally appalled by the cheap US govt subsidized grain that flooded Mexico many years ago which in turn devastated their economy and subsequently led to the massive numbers of migrants. Does the fact that America has repeated this practice over and over in countries throughout the world bother you as well? Funny how people could give a rip when cooperate America points the gun at everyone else. but when it gets pointed at them....well that's just unamerican.

How many on here can say that everything they own is made in America? This is not an issue exclusive to audio. The massive flooding of Chinese goods is everywhere. Furthermore how many of you support the idea that American companies should have to pay a living wage? I’m not talking about a $15 an hr minimum wage but an actual living wage. How many of you are financially prepared to incur the price increase of goods and services provided to you exclusively by American workers making a living wage? I’d venture a guess that sales of luxury hifi would hit rock bottom almost instantly with the exception being those who are in the "don’t tell anyone but I don’t pay much in taxes because I have a crafty accountant" crowd. How patriotic.

All this talk of Chinese slave labor and yet no mention of American companies guilty of the same practices. I just read a report that Apple has or is getting ready to layoff thousands of Chinese workers in favor of using robots. If the measly $15 minimum wage passes how many more companies do you think will follow suit? This is attributed to one simple thing. Profits and the "by any means necessary" paradigm that corporations live and die by.

Wake up people it’s an endless cycle that feeds itself......you can’t have it both ways. Without the McDonald’s and the Wal-marts, Targets, Best buys etc the rubes in the lower class couldn’t afford to live and would then take to the streets in mass violent protests.

I’ve seen a lot of banter on here lately about the death of the audio industry and how it relates to the current state of the economy. To those of you who want to blame the either the current or the past administrations for the mess we’re in need to spend some time researching the US economic and foreign policies over last 75 years or so. This situation didn’t happen overnight.

Bottom line is no other generation will have it as good as the baby boomers. Period.

Agreed Kijanki...and as posted previously in this thread if one chooses not to buy Chinese goods then so be it. However the idea that all Chinese goods should be boycotted for the various reasons mentioned in this thread is a shallow and narrow minded viewpoint.

Holding an entire country accountable for the behavior of some of it's citizens? Really? Based on this flawed logic, you have to now boycott every single thing you own made in every country on earth including those made right here in the good ole US of A.

 That's right, we engage in slave labor right here in our own country. Want to speak out about the lack of environmental oversight in China? I invite you to visit the fracking fields in North Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado. Ever heard of Flint, Michigan? Ever eat mercury laden fish from the rivers in the Midwest that are full of toxic run-off from large scale farming operations?  The list goes on and on and yes the black market trade is alive and well here also.

So I have to ask, based on the reasons stated for not supporting Chinese audio manufacturers, why do you support gear manufactured elsewhere? 

Something that was posted earlier in this thread ( I have read it on other threads as well) that I found particularly interesting was "I had a piece of gear once that was made in China and it broke, so I will never buy anything else made there". I wonder if those same standards apply to Amercican made gear. This site is full of threads with people citing malfunctions, mishaps, poor service and defects from American made audio gear. Do those of you that have experienced this now boycott all Amercican made gear as well? Just wondering.