>>11297805>They can't even do basic operations without 3rd world slave labor and government bailouts. What fuckups.Look at the /toy/ market until recently. The only way toys were able to be high quality AND cheap was on the backs of the Chinese workers, and as the Chinese workers gained more leverage and higher pay, toys got worse for us. Either more expensive while maintaining quality, or worse paint jobs and quality.
You'll never see figures with paint jobs like used to be produced in the late 90s and early 00s for $9.99, even inflation adjusted to 2025's dollars.
The prosperity of the middle and upper class has always been built on exploitation and using externalities to benefit themselves at the expense of some other group. When that exploitation can no longer happen, the inequality vanishes, as is happening with toys.
See pic from 2021
