I see a lot of push towards shopping local and supporting the local economy. However, the large national brands provide the same product for cheaper and provide more jobs than your local producer. Why should I pay more for an essentially equivilant product?
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I read your other comments, so I’ll answer here generalized.
I think you are thinking too big and about things that maybe is not really good to buy locally. A car, for example. You can’t buy a car made locally becouse it’s way too expensive to produce it in small.. A smartphone either, and so on..
But what about food? Why do we don’t buy food that is produced locally? It’s cheaper (here at least), it’s better (less chemicals) AND the money keeps running locally. Or handmade things, these aren’t cheaper, but usually it last longer AND the money keeps running locally. We prefer to buy on big markets becouse it’s easier, humans are too lazy.
The thing is, big companies don’t care about your neighborhood, who lives there maybe care, than the chance that they improve itself is bigger. And we, millenious from big cities, don’t have this sense becouse we are too megalomaniacs.
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