Does this mean not buying from American companies, or things that were made in America? E.g. would this person consider buying a MacBook from Apple that's entirely manufactured in China to be "buying American"?

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lucianbr a day ago | parent | next [-]

The author seems to think american companies are anti-consumer. That would certainly include Apple, no matter where a given product is made. Iphones are locked down due to decisions made by Apple execs and employees living and woking in the US, regardless where they are fabricated. It's the lockdown that matters, not where the factory is located.

I don't see why you would even think the geographical location of the manufacturing plant matters.

	▲	orwin 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Stuff that global companies sell in the US are mostly anti-consumer, even if they are foreign. Its because the USians hate government and don't want to prevent companies from abusing their customer base because it would hurt the companies bottom line. As big companies are mostly held by globalists (very rich libertarians who think, mostly rightfully, that laws don't apply to them and who want to make more money or accrue more power), they take advantage of the non-existant regulations. The issue is that now even medium corps are held by the same type of people in the US, so i think the author might have a good point: avoid buying from large corps in the US, prefer small, at worst medium, or better: small and foreign.

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happytoexplain a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Is there a reason you think that might not count? Obviously the point of not buying X is to avoid supporting X for long-term moral and practical reasons, despite the product's convenience/cheapness/quality/whatever.

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OGEnthusiast a day ago | parent [-]

It was a genuine question, since I imagine it would be difficult to be a tech enthusiast while having your entire personal supply chain be free of any US-based company. Regardless, kudos to people who try.

	▲	lucianbr a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It does not have to be all or nothing. You can probably aim to reduce the degree of "US-made-ness" of your tech gadgets. I don't know how effective that is, but it's an option that's available.
	▲	em-bee a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		the question is who makes the profit. for apple products most of the profit goes to the US. for others, eg. lenovo most of the profits go to hong kong/china. maybe you can avoid US components with ARM based computers, or loongson, the chinese CPU.