Are these ideas really based in reality? Is it mostly stereotype?
In: Economics
General comment on “made in China”:
When companies outsourced manufacturing to China they did so to cut costs. They gave manufacturers specs and awarded jobs to the lowest bidder who looked like they could do the job.
The resulting products to hit the shelves were sometimes not to the quality previously expected. The cause for this was either:
1. The company speced lower quality to double up on savings
2. The cheaper manufacturers delivered below spec but their goods were accepted by the company anyway because they were cheap and “good enough” to sell.
China has very sophisticated manufacturing, they can build high spec products when high specs are, well, specified and enforced. But a lot of companies either didn’t state high specifications or were swayed by low costs to accept below original spec goods.
This race to the bottom on price led to a lot of shit-tier goods coming out with “Made in China” tags, which the brands then blamed on China instead of their own procurement process.
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