Buying American?
Regular visitors to The Inquiring Mind know that Adam abhors protectionism.
Therefore, Adam enjoyed this expose of the nonsensical Buy American campaign in the US. (H/T Anti-Dismal)
Those who espouse the same beliefs re Kiwi made, might care to think on this as well.
Is a Fisher & Paykel product designed here, by Kiwi based personnel, but made in Thailand a Kiwi product? If we don’t buy Fisher & Paykel, then farewell those Kiwi design jobs and engineering expertise. Similarly Icebreaker clothing using NZ grown wool and NZ designs, but assembled offshore.
It is especially pertinent to note that for many NZ designed products, if they were not manufactured elsewhere then the companies which designed them might not exist at all, as the cost of the assembled product might be prohibitive.
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Buy local campaigns are just protectionism in pretty clothes which end up costing consumers more in higher prices and/or fewer choices.
My 10 year old Jeep Cherokee needed to be put out to pasture last month. It served me very well, but in my consideration of what to replace it with, anything made by Government Motors Corporation (GM and Chrysler) was scrapped from the list.
I do wonder if it is possible to know if “New Zealand made” or “American made” has any meaning at all. But I still see products with “NZ Made” stickers on them. I just don’t know what the people who put them on think they mean.