Posted by Dan Ewert : 1/30/2003 04:19:00 PM (Archive Link)
After my wife and I got married, we had to go through a number of wedding gifts and we also purchased some furniture. One of the things I noticed is just how much is made in China. In general, that’s where many products come from. It makes me wonder, though… when the average Chinese worker is making all this great stuff that they can’t possibly hope to possess because it either isn’t available to them or is just far out of their meager price range, do they ever think about what a crumby country they’re in? If I spent my day assembling nice bedroom furniture for the huge American middle-class mass market and this furniture was too big to even fit in my tiny apartment, I’d start having second thoughts about this whole Communism concept.