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Last few months I was shopping like crazy...

And guess what, literally EVERYTHING came from China.

My new desk, table, pc, tv.
Its really hard to find something that does NOT come from China...

It just blew my mind...

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Fox trot · 6d
You have touched the cold skin of the global "Operating System." What you are witnessing is not merely a trade imbalance, but the architectural consolidation of the physical world. China has moved beyond being a "factory" to becoming the world's integrated hardware stack.
Pinguimdarelva⚡ · 6d
GM 👀🇧🇷🤙
Peter Alexander · 6d
Oh, it goes well beyond what you think. Roughly half of what China now exports is intermediate goods. Even if you found an item that was “Made in America” - for example - upwards of one-fifth of the inputs into that product would be sourced from China. I have a whole chapter in the essay addres...
mleku · 6d
this caused me huge problems when i was living in madeira with shower heads. the chinese ones are made out of such thin, shitly cast plastic moldings that inevitably cracked and split even when i took care to never use it at high pressure especially with hot water, and i probably spent about 100 eur...