Christmas Presents

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And China's been eyeing up moving out of the manufacturing game, which will be a wrench in our plans.

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To cut the story short: before ww2, it was local children.

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Over way around, we’re eyeing up leaving China and production slowly is.

China cannot afford to not have a manufacturing industry. It would be political suicide for the party to move towards agrarian or a service economy.

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We need to go back. I was destined to die horiffically in a factory accident, not waste away at a desk.

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I mean yes, the corporations are enslaving children in Asia and polluting the globe, but you need to look on the brigth side: the profits of shareholders have never been higher.

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...what. They're everyone's largest trading partner, why would they do that?

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I feel this in a scar in my head. US made cap grenade. Like cap guns, but a grenade. There is a dent. In my head.

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I had one of those! Heavy as hell with a half sphere on the bottom where the caps would go, right?

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Oh wow you just unlocked a previously lost memory!

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Well, it's kind of a choice kind of material conditions. China's become prosperous and educated. Their citizens are starting to demand imports and better jobs. It's not going to give up the manufacturing game for many decades but it's definitely ramping down whether it wants to or not. It's not really a problem for western consumption, there are plenty of struggling countries with cheap/free labor to exploit around the world.

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As a now parent... How the hell was that ok to give to kids??

Here's a metal baseball. Throw it towards your friends.

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They sold it at Kay Bee Toys. How bad could it be? Lol

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I was born in 86 and have every metal Tonka truck. It wasn’t all gone by then!