Rapid growth of Temu and Shein threatens US businesses and consumers, Biden says.
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I thought maybe this would be about the cheap disposable products and massive amount of waste these companies produce, but nope - it’s just the wrong pollution.
We need to create massive amounts of cheap disposable American products and send massive amounts of American waste to our landfills.
Why not just subsidize the shit out of the USPS?
I buy a lot of AliExpress stuff, craft and hobby electronics stuff, and have run into situations where a domestic vendor will have what I want, sometimes even at a competitive price, but their shipping will be $5-10- maybe discounted if I spend $50, 100, or more, while the Chinese option is $2 postage, or even "free postage if I spend $10."
If you could mail a 100 gram padded envelope for under $1, it would cloae the gap substantially.
Neither the US nor China are truly free markets. They both play with taxes, tariffs, and subsidies to affect commerce both international and domestic.
Yeah but the US is the one constantly jerking itself into a frenzy about "free markets"
I love this libertarian obsession with "true free markets" as if there has ever been or ever will be a market with no nation-states or major conglomerates putting their fingers on the scale for their own self interests. What a world it must be to live in where one is so high on idealism that they somehow miss how incredibly fucking worthless even considering such a thing is when a child could point out that would never occur.
Jerseys and stuff arent usually bought on Temu/Shien but rather DHgate, which is MUCH more niche in terms of Chinese marketplaces known in the U.S. The average person outside of the internet/sporting fandom probably doesn't know what DHgate is.
I assumed from the words “like temu” and general leagues penny pinching, they’ll probably get hit as well. But more importantly, europe for some reason might follow 😭
I found them when in need of a decent priced bong over a decade ago, haha!
I bought 2 nice queen size beds for about $300. There’s no way local furniture store would produce the same prices.
Temu cuts out entire US retail chain including Amazon shop.
I buy local after I fail to find Temu, Shein or my time needs don’t allow waiting.
