Everyday Carry. What essentials do you carry on a daily basis?

I mean, not even just that; companies don't move manufacturing overseas to build a better product. There are plenty of product segments and individual products that demonstrate China and Taiwan are more than capable of producing high quality stuff with good QA, but no one moves manufacturing there to make high quality stuff, they do it because moving to a place with poor labor laws, cheap labor, with low expectations of health & saftey in the workplace, and weak environmental regulatory oversight is a unchecked-capitalism wet dream, and allows for more "competitive pricing" (a race to the bottom), and better profit margins.

Companies don't move or start manufacturing overseas because they wanna build a good product, they do it cause it's cheap as shit, and that's reflected in a lot of what we associate with things being made poorly made. The manufacturing groups set up in other contries are perfectly capable of hitting QC goals, but it's not like the folks doing business with them are generally asking for much with respect to product quality standards.

that's a big part of how I look at it anyway