Reply to Temu Shoppers

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Temu Shoppers"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven’t purchased anything from Temu, but I do reverse google image searches when shopping a lot and find the exact same images on Amazon and Temu (Temu being a fraction of the price). Doesn’t that mean they are being produced in the same Chinese facilities? What makes Amazon so much more acceptable? (Legitimately asking)  [/quote]

I don’t actually find Amazon much more acceptable (don’t shop there either) but reasons people might feel it’s marginally less reprehensible imo are:

- some of the warehouse workers are unionized — although very few and this doesn’t affect the people making the products

- if you buy Amazon or other American brands there is a fairly good chance the product you’re buying is likely to be made to American industrial standards (eg no more likely to poison you than anything else, some sop to at least the appearance of human rights in the supply chain, etc) — but if you’re buying some random garbage brand on Amazon they don’t check or enforce *anything* so yeah it’s likely the exact same thing as on Temu

- you data is being harvested and fed into complex behavioural models by American capitalists (who will likely sell the data to whoever pays them) as opposed to Chinese communists (who will give the data to their government) — to me, this is much of a muchness but some people might feel more comfortable with one or the other[/quote]

Mostly agree, except nothing made in China has any industrial standards. Anyone who believes otherwise is simply naive. Most Americans have  no actual experience with Communist regimes and how they control just about every detail. The Chinese Communist Regime has exactly zero concern for foreign industry standards or for the massive toxic waste getting dumped into the environment. every. single. second. Zero.

[/quote]

I agree with you but let's not be silly. China makes most of our prescription drugs now. India has joined the party. We should have been railing against this decades ago.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics