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Do we pay too much for our cheap goods? « The Quotidian

source: http://thequotidian.org/2009/08/24/do-we-pay-too-much-for-our-cheap-good/

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Everyone loves a good bargain, but what are the low prices at IKEA and other big-box stores NOT telling us? John Speranza takes a look at a new book, "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture," in search of some answers.
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5 comments // Do we pay too much for our cheap goods? « The Quotidian

  • notgunahapin
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      notgunahapin  

    • Everything you buy now is crap, you will have to buy it over and over and over and over again and again because it falls apart as soon as you use it, we do pay and the huge Government does compound the problem. its got to reach a breaking point soon.
      Everything Americans want to do is illeagle if not- licenced...permitted...insured...regulated...inspected... accounted...taxed, several times...overly prosessed... properly distributed...
      This is no longer a free country, not even close.

    • 2 years ago
  • T5vZZ
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      T5vZZ  

    • sounds alot like an expose form of the story of stuff.

      "In Shell’s view, everything from the environmental catastrophes of modern food production to the human rights abuses and repressive politics of the developing world can be laid at the door of the American cult of the bargain"

      i know we certainly played our hands right into the middle of these catastrophes, but does our 'cultist bargain gouging' represent our impact? industrial/global/corporate markets arent balanced by our american checkbook. theyre predicated by them imo. commercially speaking, i think seeding demand probably enlists our glut of consumer sensibilities more than our national passion of goods..(equality in goods?) the idealism that works in regulations and preventions, falters in establishing consumer accountability ..until we're cast as profiteers - thanks to market conceit. what a heavy debasement of a general shopper.

    • 2 years ago
  • bailey78
  • s0uthc0ast
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      s0uthc0ast  

    • We are forced to search out cheap goods because of the escalating cost of our governemnt.
      An escalating cost which touches most every stage of the producer to consumer process.
      As the cost of government goes up, so goes the cost of living, but not our wages.
      If you want to penalize U.S. companies to the point of driving them to manufacture off-shore, well then you have reaped what you have sewn.

    • 2 years ago
  • T5vZZ
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