Foolish Markets

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I'm willing to buy this bag made from bed covers for $350, because it has that name dangling on it. Women in farming communities in America cut and sew better bags, but I will only fork out $30 max, for them. NO NAME NO SALE.
Handbag made from blankets, but with a famous American designer's name. Designers cannot believe how common sense free, women in 'foolish markets' are.

It’s ironic that governments label each other into us and them, communist and free, but do business in broad daylight.

China is a communist country, therefore it is the #1 enemy of the U.S. and its vassals, but everything they wear, drive, use at home and work is made in China. China doesn’t care about the nuances in ideology. It concentrates on getting as many U.S. dollars and possible, an easy feat because America is the seat of ‘foolish markets.’

China capitalizes on markets that buy someone’s name, not the actual skirt or jacket. It cannot believe that men and women in America and so-called free countries prefer clothes with someone’s name e.g. Gucci, Dior, Valentino, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs etc. China chuckles and says, what America wants, America gets and makes clothes and sneakers with a name. China understands the mentality so well, it attaches a price, let’s say $2,000 for a genuine Italian bag (made in China) and a fake one, also made in the same factory in China.

China just loves American mega-events like the Oscars, where commentators gush over how ‘Valerie’ the star of the new movie, was wearing a dress by this French designer and shoes by that Italian designer.  They were made in China, so China smiles at the free publicity. Once again, China is a communist country. America was, the cradle of free enterprise and democracy before the Donald Trump dictatorship.

Therefore, the two countries should be cat and mouse. Far from it. China invests in massive factories, plants and other infrastructure to satisfy ‘foolish markets’ whose buying rationale is the NAME. Kids even kill each other and do coordinated shop looting for handbags and clothing with a NAME. America is the cat, China is the mouse, that builds factories to clothe the cat, that only buys clothes with a NAME.

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