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I am willing to pay more money if you build your products in the US / Europe / Japan and actually do QA.

Most people won't. I'm not sure I would. I don't inherently see anything wrong with buying goods made in China or Taiwan - there are plenty of companies (eg Apple) who manufacture high quality goods there.

US labor has massive issues too - I wouldn't want to own a car made in the US.

As for your router, my Chinese-made Buffalo does everything yours does (plus wifi and runs dd-WRT) and cost me $30. Your argument would only stand up if everything made in China was poorer quality to US made, and that isn't the case.



> I wouldn't want to own a car made in the US.

You might. A lot of Asian carmakers now have plants in the US.

Looks like Honda has 4, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Honda_assembly_plants


Only because its cheaper to assemble cars in the US than it is to ship them from China. I don't know how Mexico compares though...




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