Hi, my name is MadHound, and I use a (insert electronic device here) made in China.

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27. Of course it's about increasing corporate profits.

The thing is that it's ALWAYS been that way. Manufacturing jobs didn't used to exist in the US because the people running the corporations were some sort of lovers of the working man. Conditions existed which made it profitable for them to do so. Henry Ford would have fired every one of his employees and had his cars manufactured in China if it would have maximized his profits to do so.

We are not going to change how corporations operate, because they function within a capitalist system which is far stronger than any participant in it. You cannot compete with capitalism. What we can do is influence our government which regulates capitalism. I agree that corporations have undue influence in that system, but we at least have some influence there.

I do my fair bit of blaming people for cutting their own throats when they shop at Walmart, but blaming the consumer is really just blaming the victim. We're born into this capitalist system and have to live in it. This isn't to say that corporations and consumers can't take on any responsibility - we can, but all of that will just be after the fact.

What we can do is vote. Our constitution - at least in part - is still in effect. So long as we keep rolling over and voting for the lesser of two evils (even worse is the shit I see on here about people voting in primaries for someone who is "electable&quot we are not participating in this system as designed, and we will not make a change.