Will Americans Buy American After the Pandemic?

Michigan's a good example of how things can change right because Michigan used to be Detroit used to be the most Profitable or the richest state or the richest city rather let me get this out, right? Detroit used to be the richest city. It used to be a hugely rich city back when they're making cars there Yeah, I mean they still make some cars there, but back when it was the place Don't don't even get me started on the American car industry But crazy you talk about a group that took it for granted and didn't adapt to the times Yeah, and literally sat there and watched the Japanese take all of their business. They they watched the Camry become a Chevy Yeah, used to be just we don't buy it use Chevy versus Ford right you you remember your family You had Chevy families and Ford families It was but there was no talk of any and they they they had that market and they just sat back and let built crappy cars And blah blah blah and let that whole thing go. It's ridiculous Well things get weird when you ship stuff overseas to or ship jobs overseas You know things are cheaper to make in Mexico or they're cheaper to make in China Yeah, that that exists But but as far as the cars they I mean American cars in the 70s and 80s were garbage garbage They were and and that was a choice the factory could have made they could have made better cars And they just chose not to do you think people are gonna be more Open to the idea of American made businesses supporting American made businesses after you realize how difficult it is to get things from China During a pandemic and how we're so reliant on China for medicine and for electronics and so many different things One would hope I think there's two ways to do it either we do that support American businesses or and This is a worldwide thing open up to the idea of globalization Where thing where it's a global economy? Not an individual nation's economy, you know, then who runs it China? No the fuck out of here America No, well the same people who run it now right the bankers Right there. I mean they don't give a shit. They don't give a shit about where the money comes from They're running the money worldwide You know, they're they're in in contact with each other, you know I mean that and I'm not even talking from a conspiracy theory thing like that's just how it works money flows throughout the world and and so if you're financing I Don't know if you're financing Apple computer and Apple computer is building their computers in China If you're at a bank on Wall Street, you don't care you care about Apple paying their Stock dividends or paying their bills, you know what I mean? So so the bankers who run this who are behind it. They don't give a shit Right. I just want to make sure it stays profitable, right? They just want to sacrifice that for some ideal of it's good to buy American, right? Right, but if you can show some if you can show a way to profitably make it American You'd have to get people from America to really find value in buying something That's America because it would cost more like how much would it cost didn't we've done this before? How much would cost to make an American phone? Everything everything made over here is that even possible? I don't think so Yeah, I think it has to come down to those rare materials They're putting isn't that crazy when you think about how many people here have phones? Yeah, how many people are addicted to phones? We can't even make our own But we gave that up but forever Can we well can't we adjust? Only the only way to just is if other countries bring up their standard living to ours and their Income level ours then the price of labor becomes the same Because that's the big variable. That's a big or you make so much value in things being American That you'll pay more for it the same way you pay more for labels, right? Like you'll pay more for Nike than you do for some no-name sneaker But then then you have to make it a better product Well, Nike's a really good product, but there's some sneakers that are not as well-known They're also really good products, but they'll cost like half as much Yeah, because Nike has a lot of name brand value I don't know why I'm using the word Nike but it could be anything you could have Adidas There's a lot of things that people will buy and they'll pay more for because it's a brand Yeah branding makes a difference, but it's about the brand of American made you again make it better This was a thing right when an American car Automatically meant not necessarily better right? It's there's a pride in owning Nike you you've owned something. It's got a great label What about a pride in owning something that's made in America? But you also have faith in the label in other words when you buy a Nike shoe That's true. You have faith that this is a good shoe. It's a quality shoe, right? Yeah, so if if there was a time when made in America Meant it was better right the cars are a perfect example. So you automatically bought it. So now You have to once again build that in and it takes a long time This is another thing about American economy versus world right American economy. They're based on the profits in the next quarter You know where it's like Toyota was making plans in the 70s to run the American the world car market in the 90s like they plan Long term you have to look at it like that That it's not just a matter of quarterly dividends you you have to look at what are we doing with this company and it has to Constantly make more money every year. It has to make more money than the last that's how you know It's doing well Yeah, and you have stockholders that you have to you know You're you have to listen to them and you adapt and try to make a better product I mean you look at like Windows right like we're on Windows. Whatever. We're not still on Windows 1 Yeah, because they were like, oh this works better. Oh, this didn't work. We got to change that Oh this works better and that you keep adapting and changing the product or the same thing now sometimes You know like with the Apple with iPhones It's like sometimes look you that phone you just change it for the sake of changing it like there's a reason there was no iPhone 9 right they were like alright. We can't fool them anymore We got a whole no they made it iPhone 10 because it was the 10th year is that is that any year anniversary the iPhone 2017 it started out in 2007 so 2017 is iPhone X to mark the ten year anniversary. That's why there's no iPhone 9, but there is an iPhone 9 now It's a yes see I see yeah, so you need to I Think you can do it, but you have to build a value into making it America and part of that is is marketing right like the f-150 there's nothing more American than a Ford pickup truck But it's made in Mexico is it really yeah, there's f-150 plants in Mexico They're not all made here in the US just like BMWs SUVs are made in South Carolina Yeah, isn't that weird? Nice, you know high up made in Ohio so you and this is what I'm talking about about the global part They figured out well. It was cheaper to make because America buys the most SUVs So BMW said well, let's just make them there, then we don't have to ship them across an ocean right make sense And then the same thing probably the NSX like listen. It's gonna be a bunch of wacky Americans to buy this fucking Super horsepower four-wheel drive Honda right so you you make it there Now when you talk about that value there are some things like Like Ferraris you know like it's a Ferrari So it it has a value to it and the fact that it's Italian Adds to the value of it right just yeah, yeah when you talk about Adding value like some Italian like we're just like well Yeah, that's even though a lot of times the quality was like you know falling off or whatever, but it was just the fact that it's Italian so Yes, we could do that, but I don't know that that anybody will