Maybe we were going to do that in the 60s... Then the 70s... Then the 80s complete with a Made in America ad campaign to boot!...
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The 2008 Bush Great Recession, when everything from TV repairman to shoe cobbler's going to make a comeback... No more wear once or twice and dispose. No more new 72'' flatscreen every 5 months.
2020, when Covid taufght us there was something more to life than spending all our money on paper towels....
Our parents, our grandparents - they came here they stayed here out of greed. Pure and simple greed. It wasn't enough to have enough acreage to grow everything you need to eat and to be surrounded by neighbors that were your own family and friends going back literally thousands and thousands of years. People cannot become gluttonous obese money grubbing greed-driven shallow backstabbers who would betray their own family for a handful of nickels by staying back in the old country and sobbing how instead of his and hers SUVs, they had to borrow their uncle's donkey to bring bales of hay to town to sell in the fall. Really tragic. They suffered so so much...... joy
Anywho, they didn't give all that up just so they could come here to do their civic duty for the grand American economy and not buy anything in excess. They came here for greed. They came here for gluttony. They came here for shiny glittery disposable plastic things. And by golly, ain't nothing going to stop that dream, nothing.
Except maybe a Chinese cyber attack on all our infrastructure if our overlords piss them off too much.