Asking this because it’s known that the reason everything’s been offshored is for profit, so I’m curious as to how much people here are willing to pay extra for a product if it gets made in the US again. 10% extra? 20%? 30%? How much of a markup for American labor is too much?
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To apply to non Americans here, can change it to 'made in the country you reside'?
As in that case , it depends on another issue: quality. The reason the American car industry got sodomised by the Japanese and Europeans was they offered a better product. There's no point priding yourself on 'it was made here' if the product is vastly inferior at a marked up price compared to a cheaper product outside that is just as a disposable.
So that you can't go 'you're just hating on Americans' look up British Leyland as an example of what I'm talking about.
To be honest, some international cooperation is for a better product
It's like the British and Italians designing their cars but getting the Germans to build them so they are reliable and great to drive.
Germany makes reliable cars? That has not been my experience. Powerful and fun to drive, absolutely. Reliable, not so much.
My Audi has been mostly reliable. I've only had 2 things actually fail on it where it stopped working in the 11 years I've owned it.
Then again I don't have the 2.0T engine that drinks oil.