Are there any regulators made in USA?

[jellycatsdad]

The current American capitalist system discourages that. But that system is not inviolate. Indeed it is not the American capitalist system that existed in the '50s and '60s that many look back to as the peak of US manufacturing both in terms of quantity and quality (relative to other countries).

You can have a system that encourages sustained growth and long term thinking among both producers and consumers of goods. The answers as to how you achieve this are inherently political so I'm not going to go into it. Except to note that these answers revolve around tax policy and labor rights (hint, look at how these have changed since the '60s). Tariffs, by themselves, do nothing but drive up prices in the short term and drive down quality (by reducing competition) in the longer term.

The American consumer is a price-point driven one. Our love for low prices and the big box store(particularly Walmart, but Target won’t escape my scrutiny) is partly why we’re in this mess.

 

[jellycatsdad]

I still don't get it.
A little country like Sweden making Poseidons and all the rest of quality things they make there.
A little country like Italy making Scubapro's and sexy cars like Ferrari's and Lamborghini's and the finest suits and high quality leather shoes.

I’ve always joked around that Canada can prop themselves up with leggings/yoga pants, buses, whiskey and lumber. But, almost all of what lululemon(and their fellow Vancouverites Arcteryx/Aritizia/Bare) sells is made in Cambodia/Vietnam/Sri Lanka, New Flyer builds a majority of their buses in Minnesota and Alabama while Prevost/NovaBus is owned by AB Volvo and Seagram’s is owned by Diageo - and American ag giants run the distilleries in Canada.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

The American consumer is a price-point driven one. Our love for low prices and the big box store(particularly Walmart, but Target won’t escape my scrutiny) is partly why we’re in this mess.

Quantity over quality.
The low prices are responsible for hyper consumerism.