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Cake day: July 17th, 2026

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  • Support more local jobs and a larger variety of jobs.

    If you love all manufacturing to foreign nations like china, they will be able to control the prices you pay, and various political bullshit can interfere with your producs price. Like tariffs, general trade war, weird ships getting stuck in a narrow corridor, etc

    And while it have been cheaper in the 90s, prices are not that much lower than local production, these days (well, depending on whats being produced)

    The us now sees china as a threat in terms of global influence, economics etc

    And this is mostly caused by companies moving manufacturing to china some decades ago, when the avg chinese citizen would ride a bike to work.

    And you cant move production back because the people who know how to, are dead

    I live in a small country and when a large business in a small town closes down and move production out to another country, it basically kills the town. Slowly but surely, the people who worked there found jobs in other towns and moved out, fewer people means less people to keep the local small businesses alive. Local mechanics, small shops etc all close down eventually when this happens

    And nobody wants to live in a small town where you gotta drive 20 minutes to another town. to buy groceries … when youre used to just walking 10 minutes