I see it as a sign that many people who want to be or appear rich have been duped for a long time about their products. That Gucci bag was made in the same factory as the Walmart brand one. Same with those Reeboks and Nikes. It's been a fake rich scam for decades and now all those feaux rich are being made fun of as China crumbles.
Basically, the guys that go 'I got this from (insert luxury brand) main store!' as the idiot trend chasers while the real ones that are getting luxury are the ones that went to local businesses and got a custom order made or hired a local craftsman to do something.
Yeah, I do leatherwork as a hobby and the stuff you get from stores or Amazon is very cheap. They will put a small thin piece of leather over fabric or filler, if they use real leather at all. To get something actually quality you need to go to small handmade shops, or buy on somewhere like Etsy with a custom order.
This really does feel like HEAVY projection.
The US logistics are weak due to outsourcing and refusal to allow resource extraction domestically. Those can be solved within 3-5 years.
China's problem is that they not only extracted a lot but that there's so much internal corruption their fucking buildings are made of tofu.
I see it as a sign that many people who want to be or appear rich have been duped for a long time about their products. That Gucci bag was made in the same factory as the Walmart brand one. Same with those Reeboks and Nikes. It's been a fake rich scam for decades and now all those feaux rich are being made fun of as China crumbles.
Basically, the guys that go 'I got this from (insert luxury brand) main store!' as the idiot trend chasers while the real ones that are getting luxury are the ones that went to local businesses and got a custom order made or hired a local craftsman to do something.
Yeah, I do leatherwork as a hobby and the stuff you get from stores or Amazon is very cheap. They will put a small thin piece of leather over fabric or filler, if they use real leather at all. To get something actually quality you need to go to small handmade shops, or buy on somewhere like Etsy with a custom order.