Why Build Domestic?

Despite my previous post it still makes sense to make consumer goods in the US.

Just to be clear: I am talking real, physical goods here, not software or services.

Sometimes

When does it make sense?

A Unique Form of Intellectual Property

China is much maligned on IP by Western firms.

Western IP is a Failure

Arguably, China has a better IP model than do.

How China Rules Consumer Goods

Made in the USA.

It’s a funny statement, mostly because of how few consumer goods are made in the USA.

As a child born in the 90’s, I can only remember a few products with that origin label. My toys started out as ‘Made in Mexico’, some of my electronics said ‘Made in Japan’; pretty much everything else had the ubiquitous ‘Made in China’.

How did nearly all consumer oriented manufacture shift from the US?

In what (hopefully) is my final blog website change before I sit down and actually type some blog posts, I’ve migrated over to Octopress.

Why Did You Move Sites Again

I used to host this site with Wordpress, powered by the good folk over at NearlyFreespeech (who offer fantastically cheap rates). But while Wordpress had a great community, constant bug fixes, and millions of tutorials, there was always something that felt wrong.

Hullo World, I setup an Octopress site!

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