Are there any regulators made in USA?

[tridacna]

I did say “not all”

You did not. But I've lived in the US since 1989 and to say that most Americans are parochial thinkers is a serious understatement. I taught at university here for a number of years and saw little to to suggest otherwise among my students.

 

[lexvil]

You did not. But I've lived in the US since 1989 and to say that most Americans are parochial thinkers is a serious understatement. I taught at university here for a number of years and saw little to to suggest otherwise among my students.

In Fl?

 

[USdiver1]

Most Americans are content with there being only four queens: Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts and Spades. Y'all can interpret that anyway you want.

 

[NauticalNick]

I just want stuff to be made here because I believe in people having jobs. I believe that we should be self sufficient, I believe that not just scuba gear but anything should be made well enough and be serviceable with parts available (not throw away) to be sustainable in the future. We can't continue to consume and throw away, it's not sustainable. Too many things are designed to prematurely fail to keep consuming going.
I believe in high quality products that last a lifetime.
I don't like when there are 100 plus ships sitting offshore in Long Beach harbor that can't be unloaded because we are addicted to cheap crap.
I don't believe in a global economy when critical infrastructure is vulnerable. Someone always wins and someone always loses. We have been at the losing end way too long. I blame big business for selling us out and offshoring everything so they can personally stuff a few more billions into their pockets.
This never should have gotten this bad, but as long as government is addicted to campaign money from big corporate America the people will always get sold out. It's all about max profits and making shareholders happy. They consider us just mindless starving idiots that will consume whatever is put in front of us like starving dogs without us giving a rip about the origin of the goods we consume and the long term repercussions of those choices.
If there was a major world wide conflict and we were involved we would be at a serious disadvantage, especially with China. We wouldn't have any underwear socks or uniforms to wear. But as long as a few at the top are getting filthy rich who cares, right?

If America has been on the losing end, I wonder how good winning looks?!? Near the top in just about every economic metric outside of a few special situations largely driven by resources or external labour (UAE, Singapore, Luxemburg). Global influence and power which essentially entails dictating how large parts of the world are supposed to work, removing leaders at will and punishing into poverty countries not aligned with the old USA with almost no accountability to anyone. Never before has "losing so badly" seemed so good!

I'll leave it at that as I don't want things to devolve into a political mudslinging post on something that has unfortunately been made political. I agree with your points that I would like to have good stuff that I can keep forever and reduce waste but the American capitalist system discourages that. Apple, an American company, makes phones that have been proven to degrade in performance to make you buy a new one. Foxxcon has been told to make them that way and Apple has coded the phones to perform that way. I don't think goods made in the most hyper-capitalist and consumerist country in the history of the world wouldn't be made to make the most amount of money possible. While globalism is being smeared by populists that have this absurd romantic notion of industrial society, the leading economies are all service economies now, and the entire world (albeit not the planet) has benefited immensely from globalization.

 

[lowwall]

...but the American capitalist system discourages that. Apple, an American company, makes phones that have been proven to degrade in performance to make you buy a new one. Foxxcon has been told to make them that way and Apple has coded the phones to perform that way. I don't think goods made in the most hyper-capitalist and consumerist country in the history of the world wouldn't be made to make the most amount of money possible. While globalism is being smeared by populists that have this absurd romantic notion of industrial society, the leading economies are all service economies now, and the entire world (albeit not the planet) has benefited immensely from globalization.

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.