content: Without doxxing yourself, what line of work are you in? I'm going to guess- some kind of manufacturing? There is a plastic injection molding factory in my area that had about 40 machines running every day, for 3 shifts nonstop.  Last week, I heard that they were only running TWO machines per day. 120ish workers laid off, and the remainder are taking turns getting a few hours per week.  By now, the place might be closed entirely. THANKS, BOOMERS. THANKS FOR BEING SO FUCKING GREEDY, THAT YOU PLACED ALL OF OUR EGGS IN A CHINESE BASKET. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG WHEN DEPENDING ON A TOTALITARIAN COMMUNIST REGIME (who is waging a covert war against us for decades) THAT USES SLAVE LABOR TO MAKE ALL OF OUR CHEAP SHIT?! We've been balanced on a fucking razor's edge for so long now. We have always been just one natural disaster, one revolution, one epidemic away from a total, worldwide manufacturing crisis. Fucking insanity. Of all the places to depend so heavily on, WHY CHINA?! I know the answer- slave labor. Can't compete as a business if you're making all your factories in the USA, using USA's standards and hiring legal American citizens; you have to pay them more than $2/hour, you have to insure them, and your materials will be more expensive (although higher quality) than your competitor. Your competitor has all of their factories in China, where their workers are lucky to make $2/hour, and their only standards are "make as much cheap shit as quickly as possible, and polish it up so it doesn't look so cheap".  THIS KIND OF PRACTICE SHOULD BE ILLEGAL. COMPANIES WHO EXPLOIT FOREIGN SLAVE LABOR IN ORDER TO CRUSH MARKET COMPETITION IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY SHOULD BE PUNISHED SEVERELY, SO SEVERELY THAT IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO JUST MANUFACTURE LIKE A HUMAN BEING WITH A GRAIN OF MORALITY.  But hey, at least we have a ton of gizmos that will break after brief use. Thanks, Boomers! Hope it was worth it!  Hey DillHole, how does it feel to know that you're jobless (two and a half weeks is a laughably low estimate, meant to keep you from freaking out too much- there's no way to know how long this will last, but it will certainly be more than 2.5 fucking weeks) because your employer's greedy CEOs decided that getting a leg up on their competition by investing in Chinese bullshit was more important than ensuring that you and your peers would be secure? Feel good?