Comment 60960

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted March 15, 2011 at 02:28:42

The fact that Canadian made goods are often priced out of the range of what most Canadian consumers are willing to pay.

So sadly true.

Since the early 1970s average wages have stagnated in real terms for a large majority of Canadians and Americans. As "good jobs" in manufacturing vanished and were replaced by retail, temp or other low-waged precarious work, and costs of living like housing, tuition and debt rose, our buying power has dropped. And offered a chance at cheap, mass-produced goods from afar, many had no other choice. It's a really vicious cycle.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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