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Clubber ◴[] No.43631933[source]
>The second thing we see is that Asian manufacturing in Asia produces US jobs. You go to Footlocker to buy a pair of $100 shoes because you can afford them. This creates jobs for the Footlocker employees, Nike designers, marketing teams, and other US people throughout this chain.

In all fairness, most of those jobs would still exist if manufacturing was brought onshore. The fact that they were manufactured in Asia makes no difference here, except for perhaps the longshoremen that was included in "other US people."

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1. onlyrealcuzzo ◴[] No.43632870[source]
The point is - there isn't a market for $400 crappy basketball shoes.

There is a market for $120 ones...