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Well, most complainers usually aren’t all that passionate about “the cause,” they typically just like to complain. And unless you go out of your way to find clothes and other items that are made solely in the US, you are going to own clothes made in other countries.
Is it even possible to go to a normal store and find american made clothes? That sounds like going to toy stores to find things not made in china.
Not to mention most of the American Made clothes are ridiculously expensive, and the stuff that’s not expensive doesn’t last more than 3 washes.
Unless those of us who believe in fair trade and would like to purchase only clothing made in the US plant a cotton crop, buy a spinning wheel, loom and sewing machine there is no way to obtain clothing that is 100% US origin.
Gandhi did it in India. We can do it here! Of course, he was just making that one piece of cloth. I will call my own fail.
Actually, in 1965, 95% of all clothing was manufactured entirely in the US. Today only 5% is. Those stats prove it is something we are capable of, its just that government stopped putting regulations on companies, and the less regulations, the more the guy at the head of the table will try and maximise profits any way he can (outsourcing). But as of 1965, it used to be that you couldn’t even run a successful company if you weren’t union. People were able to make quality clothing, that sold and generated profit, and at the same time were able to pay their workers liveable wages w/benefits… who knew!?
This is a lame and inaccurate graph. Outsourcing means to obtain goods or services from an outside supplier, one which may or may not be located in Asia. As exampled in the video, many call centers jobs have lately been outsourced to India because the wages are lower and the employees speak English. This, as we all know if we’ve ever dealt with it, can be a very frustrating and annoying experience.
The garment industry, however, is different. Textiles and clothing have been milled, sewn, and packaged in Asia for a VERY long time. It’s nothing new and does not represent a loss of American jobs.
A more meaningful graph would be one that juxtaposes people who complain about child labor and human rights violations while still wearing any article of clothing purchased at the Gap, Old Navy, Banana Rep., Target, etc.
It’s outsourcing because you have a domestic company hiring a foreign company to produce the goods. And if you don’t think it costs jobs, it’s only because you’re only taking today as your slice of time. You wouldn’t be able to say what you said to the faces of the thousands of American textile workers who were left jobless as plant after plant closed down not that many years ago, when American clothing companies began to outsource textile production. Regions of the eastern US that used to be textile powerhouses were devastated.
I’m not saying we would be able to take back textile production. That would mean that we, the consumers, would be willing to pay more for clothes in order to pay American wages to have them made here. And we’re not. Which means another graph could be outsource complainers vs. people who only shop for the lowest price.
Dude what? You haven’t explained how it’s inaccurate — i.e. how the intersection of the two groups is not large. You’ve just relayed a definition of outsourcing. No matter how correct that definition is, everyone will know what was meant.
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This is a funny diagram. I lol’d.
I would like to see the creator of this graph get everything in their life from the USA. That means the source material, labor, etc. Think you can get it 100% USA? Fat chance. We don’t have the capabilities. We may have the potential labor source, but we don’t have the raw materials, mostly because of climate.
What we need to do is figure out something that the USA can do better then anybody else and exploit it. And about the only thing you see that we can do better is uh…whining. Sadly. We could say ponzi schemes, but I think Nigeria is even better then Madoff at that even.
So yeah, you got any better ideas? Cause I’m out of them.
We don’t have the right climate to grow synthetic fabrics?
How does the graph demonstrate that its maker is complaining about clothes being made in Asia? It seems more to me that (s)he is commenting on the hypocrisy of people who do complain about it. So in all likelyhood, you just flamed jordybordy for having the same opinion as you. Good job.
Wrong climate? Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t a sizeable chunk of the US building its economy on King Cotton before we attempted to secede, lost a war over it, finished wrecking the regional economy and retooled our infrastructure for country music and meth production?
I’m not saying there aren’t some massive obstacles to a wholly domestic textiles industry, but I don’t think the climate is anywhere near the biggest.
Yes, well, synthetics can only be grown on the moon by martians.
Cotton grew wonderfully in the Southern climate; hemp grows well damn near everywhere. The problem with growing our own fiber is that agribusiness farms are focused on monoculture farming (which is an ecological nightmare unto itself). It’s not that we *can’t* create US-only clothing products, but that we *won’t*
lol what? just an observation internet hot shot.
Outsourced jobs is unfortnate but thats capitalism for you. The only real way to fix it is to remove them minimum wage which will never happen.
Or impose labor conditions on incoming goods.
Replying to V Gard as an idiot, not RS.
Hey, why not put OUR kids to work in good old American sweat shops instead of those foreign kids? It worked in the early 1900′s, and look how our economy grew in that century.
Sweatshops are not indicative to make clothing.
Fact is, buying American made products helps pay American wages of American families who pay American taxes and who buy your products and/or services, which helps put MORE money into YOUR pocket.
If you like paying higher taxes and having less money, by all means, buy foreign made products.
But, if you enjoy having lower taxes, better schools, better health care, better roads and utilities, etc. AND having more money in your pocket, buy American made when and wherever you can.
Indicative? … Imperative?
Doesn’t this graph also imply that almost everyone who is wearing clothes made in Asia complains about jobs being outsourced?
Graph Comprehension – FAIL
Actually it’s graph construction fail, but if we take it to mean what jordybordy seems to want it to mean, then Chal is right.
Very good point, but the bigger issue is that all the graph implies is that some (undescribed portion of) people who wear Asian-made clothes complain about outsourcing.
For (I wish it were) the last time — Venn diagram overlap size does not imply relative quantity!!!
it’s big just for fun. the sizes aren’t relevant to actual amount of people, it just looks funny.
As a girlfriend of a complainer that has difficulty finding clothes made in the US, I find the graph lightheartedly amusing. (Didn’t watch the video. Daughter sleeping.)
Nice video…. tell me how the “complainer” is supposed to buy the product without the job he just lost….chicken or egg, anyone? We buy cheap products perhaps because the relative adjusted wages in this country have been going DOWN in comparison to the product prices. In the mid-70s, when we last had a LARGE middle-class, was about time we started hemorrhaging jobs. Income went stagnant, the middle-class shrunk, homeownership diminished (until the recent subprime debacle), yet prices still went up. Executive pay and bonuses are 500x the average worker’s pay (and that’s in THIS country), yet they just can’t possibly make a profitable product IN the United States. Oh, really?
It’s not where your clothes are made, it’s whether or not you buy them new. Shopping resale (especially at local shops, not Goodwill) takes money out of the sweatshop operators’ pockets and puts it into the local economy. Bonus: older, pre-outsourcing goods are better made and will last you longer.
I’m always on the look-out for American made products!
Yeah clothes that are pure american hardly exists anymore.
You really think it’s possible for EVERYTHING you own to be made in America? Does that mean no one had the right to complain about outsourcing?
Um, dude, everyone wears something that’s made in China.
I prefer the clothes from Latin American sweatshops.
Uh, Venn diagrams are supposed to have the middle part labeled with what the other two parts have in common. So what do they have in common?
As if you can’t tell from context. Also, I don’t think it’s necessary to label the intersection.
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Granted, the drawback with Venn diagrams on here it that it’s a bit of a lulzkiller to note the contents of every set.
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I dont try and find all my clothing Made In USA , but then I live in Australia.
Whoever made this graph fails to realize that Asia is pretty much the only place our clothes come from anymore. American made clothes are so difficult to find it’s at the point of “ridiculously close to impossible”. I’d love to have American-made clothes. Even just European-made clothes would be hundreds of times better.