[Lemmy]

KorbenDeck KorbenDeck:

We've outsourced to China. Canada MAYBE makes 5% of our clothing that's including work and recreation clothing, we wouldn't even be able to clothe ourselves if we stopped importing from China. Aside from food 95% of everything Canadian consumers buy is from Asia. We've outsourced all in the name of lower prices for consumers.

I don't like the word "outsourced". Outsourcing implies that we're getting the same thing we used to make domestically. Chinese products are of such inferior quality that I don't see it as outsourcing. That's what I meant.

[Public_Domain]

[Lemmy]

The word "outsourcing" has an economics definition: "for a company to have a component of its manufacturing done by an independent firm". So in economics lingo, when whole industries are replaced by cheaper foreign competition (like plastic toys, electronics and clothing), it's not outsourcing, by the economics definition of the word. If we were talking about the Chinese making automobile engines for GMs, then THAT would be outsourcing.

I understand the new, popular connotation as you're using it. It was not my intention to incite a war of semantics.

[BartSimpson]

Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:

A ban on Chinese goods would result in more quality products and the companies would actually have to pay their workers something more than a few cents a week.

No one wants that of course, because we love our cheap plastic bullshit stained with the blood of enslaved children.

I'm quoting that again for TRUTH!!!!