Made shittily in China

I am angry, to say the least. Yesterday while riding my bike, I was nearly at the halfway point of my eight mile ride and I push down on the pedal and the pedals move and the wheels do not. I inspected, thinking that the chain was off, and discovered that the pedals were broken. The crank which drove the chain broke off next to the pedals. Now, this was even more infuriating since this was maybe the tenth time I had ridden the bike. Naturally, I went to see where this was made, and naturally it was made in China.

Suddenly, the absolute lack of workmanship made perfect sense. In order to save a fraction of a cent, some greedy individual outsourced the factory from some small town in America to China. Since the Chinese use slave labor, this made perfect sense from the bottom line. After all, if you can pay $300 a month to a Chinese worker, why would you pay $300 a week to an American one? Further, to reduce the cost of shipping from Asia back to the American markets, the cost will be great, so the incentive to reduce weight is paramount. Therefore, the American firm will tell the Chinese supplier to cut down on the amount of material used for certain parts, which will reduce each unit by half a pound, which saves tens of thousands of dollars in fuel costs. This of course means that the quality of product is reduced because the probability of product failure is increased, the risk of recall goes up, and the consumer satisfaction goes down. However, the elites will always tell you that people like buying Chinese goods since X number of billions of dollars a year are spent on them. When goods such as casual use bicycles are only made in China, how is that any kind of an endorsement? It's like saying that the local utility is doing a good job because it's monopoly is the most used source of power in the city.

It is the most disheartening because these poorly made trinkets are being bought by generations not yet born. With a larger and larger share of the national debt going to interest on treasury bonds and more and more deficit spending, the burden of these cheap products will be borne by new generations. Why can people not see that we are paying interest on these cheap pieces of crap from China each year, so they are not a better deal?