Comments on: Do we pay too much for our cheap goods?

By: Carroll B. Merriman

Carroll B. Merriman — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:49:18 +0000

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By: wang

wang — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:13:14 +0000

One of the problems is that the only answer for some of these macroeconomic issues is time…

Bottom line is China is not going to improve working condition for its citizens overnight. What did working conditions look like for American workers in urban areas around the 1880′s? It was pretty grim, it took a long time and a lot of work to improve conditions.

Unfortunately this is a very classical economic view, and in the long run we do all indeed die. But what can be done? It is good to see what’s wrong, but a much more difficult thing to find a solution. In the absence of one, we wait and buy more cheap stuff.

By: Reading and writing « Thing of words

Reading and writing « Thing of words — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:50:58 +0000

[...] hopefully chased everyone off with my impersonation of Steven Wright having a stroke: I wrote this review of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture for my friend’s site, The Quotidian. Go over [...]

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:17:52 +0000

I don’t have time to read this whole article, unfortunately, but I do have a few thoughts to share while I am here, regardless of whether or not they are truly relevant to this post.

1. Great stuff, too bad I am ADD and too busy at work to invest time in actually reading past paragraph 3.

2. I always think about this when I see dollar stores. Or other cheap shit. Or when victorias secret sends me “free panty” coupons in the mail. Once, I called their 1800# and spoke to a poor defenseless customer service rep and asked “do you really think I am stupid enough to believe such a thing exists? I mean, really, FREE? somebody makes this stuff, right, there is energy required to produce it, so, how can it be free??” Anyhow, free is another debate…and another book I need to read. Thank you for being a conscious consumer

3. I also really like this comment box. Nice design.