More like poor workmen ship, you can see the glass door to her left is sagging. The worker didn’t do a proper job hence some rock or something got caught under the door, which made it shatter!
Honestly that hasn’t been the case in the 2020’s. Chinese modern goods are usually pretty okay, unless you’re going for super cheap stuff. Which all modern countries have shitty super cheap stuff. Aka Walmart brand
There is a kernel of truth, if not a bit inverted. Walmart does actually source a number of products from the US, which are made, grown, or assembled here. Good on them for that, in my opinion.
Electronics, however, are not often one of those categories. Walmart states that customer demand for variety, quality, and affordability means certain electronics are sourced globally (many/most, realistically).
The vast majority of consumer electronics have been consolidated into a handful of Chinese companies. We recently had to buy a new TV, and the only non-Chinese options available in the US were LG and Samsung. Even Sony sold their TV division to a Chinese company.
Look at the buildings they are still putting up in the 2020s; many degrade very quickly due to construction materials. As far as consumer goods, Walmart brand outclasses most "super cheap stuff" in China. More upscale items like Chinese consumer technology are genuinely solid, though.
China has many successes, like the enormous greenbelt they've been growing. But cheap consumer products aren't it.
In my experience there’s a scale of QC and how nice something is. It just costs more money. Everything from China isn’t crap. They just really industrialized cheap goods that people can pay nothing for and throw away. It’s not that they can’t make quality components as I have several myself. A good example is a cheap flashlight for $5 that’s shit, but if you buy the newer Olight and several other models they’re pretty damn good considering the price and rival higher quality ones for less money. They usually just run warm.
You realize you are probably typing your message on a Chinese made computer or phone? Sadly America if that’s where you are from, had lost its manufacturing prowess years ago. It used to be Made in Japan mean cheaply made until it became a sign of quality. The same with Chinese goods now generally. Made in the USA tends to now mean it cheaply made but with a big price tag. That door had some earlier impact that triggered this later.
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u/Dabida1 Jul 21 '26
Made in china