"Well then, business will have to suffer, all right?"
Some big box stores aren’t gonna like this at all. China is their bread and butter, giving them those thousand percent mark-ups on goods manufactured in the PRC. That’s because the stuff costs practically nothing with factories paying twenty-five cents per hour to “employees” and fuel and machinery and overhead state-subsidized. In case you hadn’t noticed—since this all started 40 years ago, China has become incredibly skillful in its beck-engineering of Western technology. The stuff coming out of there is very competitive and U.S. markets are liking it. It’s become an addiction. How will we ever get weaned? Cold turkey?