Originally Posted by Snagglefoot
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
The 50723 is 30", and similar to what the OP posted and is $203.00:
https://www.toolsource.com/misc-c-3...g-drawer-red-p-281702.html?tsqtid=872676
$203 vs $90. That's certainly enough for most consumers to make the decision.
And that's the sad part, it's $103 bucks difference and it's a conscious choice being made to put the bulk of that money in the hands of the CCP with a few bucks touching some minimum wage hands along the way versus some of it making its way into the pocket of every American or Canadian involved from fabrication, assembly, transport and distribution. We are all complicit, if consumers weren't accepting of it, it wouldn't have happened, but we just grumbled under our breath and have lived with it and now we are dealing with defective and sub-standard medical supplies showing up for front-line healthcare workers, scrambling to keep these same people that ensure our health safe because we shipped manufacture over there to save a few bucks. Our hens are coming home to roost.
The west is the architect of its own demise, delivered not via the bomb and bullet, but through our own insatiable consumption and perpetual pursuit of the cheapest price instead of the best value. We've eagerly sold our souls for the latest trinket while millions live without sufficient means to survive a month without a paycheque. We've morphed into a society who is defined by our consumerism and China has embraced that and used it as a lever to work themselves into the centre of it all, consuming our resources to feed our glut, buying our debt and slowly enabling the unravelling as we wipe the drool from our lips and blubber "more sir!". We've become a pathetic and lethargic glutton, so infatuated with our own desires for "more" that we've turned a blind eye to our world crumbling around us. Roads are in disrepair, regulations are crippling everything, debt, at all levels, is through the roof, and we really care not as long as we can get that next best thing.
OP: Sorry for the derail, but COO has become a bit of a hot button topic as of late and with there being options potentially not rubber stamped by the CCP at your disposal, I thought it wise to highlight that. I did not intend to hijack your thread.