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Yeah just like people in Detroit stopped buying Chinese made goods because all of the jobs went there and then all of the jobs came back because of it and everyone lived happily ever after.



> Yeah just like people in Detroit stopped buying Chinese made goods because all of the jobs went there and then all of the jobs came back because of it and everyone lived happily ever after. What

What are you on about? The Detroit auto industry failed due to Japan producing a superior product.

> By the end of the 1970s, the Japanese automakers dominated the domestic producers in product quality ratings for every auto market segment, representing a formidable competitive advantage (National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council, 1982, p. 99). The quality gap between U.S.-produced cars and foreign cars was beyond dispute (Kwoka, 1984, p. 518) [1]

[1] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6309861.pdf




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