It’s only low quality because capitalists want it fast and cheap and will keep throwing money for it to happen.
Same thing happened with Japan. The country started out selling to the budget buyer, because manufacturing at that tier was relatively cheap and there wasn't a lot of countervailing political pressure. They won by building cheap products that didn't instantly disintegrate. Sony, Nintendo, Toyota - all originally notable for being both affordable and durable.
Then they began releasing higher end models, once they'd established themselves as superior brands. By the time the Lexus LS 400 landed in the US in 1989, Toyota already had a solid reputation in the states. And they reuse that technology. Sort of a joke that the only difference between a high end Camry and a base model Lexus is the hood ornament.
China's followed a similar trajectory. Huawei phones are easily competitive with Samsung and Apple. Hisense has a litany of high end products, from TVs to Refrigerators. Their solar panel exports lead the world.
And, unlike a lot of American brands, they aren't hopelessly wedded to the Planned Obsolescence business model that turns every American-designed product into a brick inside five years.
Same thing happened with Japan. The country started out selling to the budget buyer, because manufacturing at that tier was relatively cheap and there wasn't a lot of countervailing political pressure. They won by building cheap products that didn't instantly disintegrate. Sony, Nintendo, Toyota - all originally notable for being both affordable and durable.
Then they began releasing higher end models, once they'd established themselves as superior brands. By the time the Lexus LS 400 landed in the US in 1989, Toyota already had a solid reputation in the states. And they reuse that technology. Sort of a joke that the only difference between a high end Camry and a base model Lexus is the hood ornament.
China's followed a similar trajectory. Huawei phones are easily competitive with Samsung and Apple. Hisense has a litany of high end products, from TVs to Refrigerators. Their solar panel exports lead the world.
And, unlike a lot of American brands, they aren't hopelessly wedded to the Planned Obsolescence business model that turns every American-designed product into a brick inside five years.