Comradeship // Freechat

Where I live no one says that anymore: they know damn well where their MacBooks & iPhones come from. Anyone who still says it must have sleepwalked through the last thirty years.

The thing I think people don't think about is it's really expensive to change your manufacturing process. The transition overseas isn't just about labor costs, but because you are rebuilding the factory anyways it's a chance to switch over to a cheaper manufacturing method. You get what you pay for and cheaper methods tend to have cut corners. You can buy high end stuff from China, it's not like iphones are made there or anything..

There's a reactionary QBC youtuber, AvE who mostly disassembles power tools and examines the quality of construction, components, and manufacturing methods. He has a teardown of a "Juciero" the $1000 juicer with DRM which is how I found him. He whines about "Chinesium" in the Chinese manufactured tool brands but there's other "American made" tools on his channel using similar lower-end manufacturing techniques or cutting similar corners.

i think the word is a response to the complete evaporation of steel jobs in america. it’s hard to see your job go away and see your same product appear on the market at a lesser quality, even if there might be reasons for that lower quality.

Just revisited the topic. Turns out this phenomenon has always existed long before Chinesium itself became a term.