When we priced a U.S.-made version of our flagship product 85% higher than our Chinese-made one, 25,650 customers had the chance to vote with their wallets. Here’s what happened. As small business owners, we’ve heard it a thousand times: “I’d gladly pay more to support American-made.” We wanted to believe it. So we put
I think there is an obvious problems with this “experiment”, namely that paying an extra $100 for the shower head won’t give extra money to American workers but the business owners. It’s literally just some bourgeoises asking you for free money and making it incredibly easy for you to just, not pay it.
Meanwhile, the existence of charity as a viable system disproves the idea that Americans are unwilling to part with their money to help other Americans.
If these guys had promised to spend all the profits from their margins on the made in USA products on actually helping workers/ ordinary Americans instead of keeping them for themselves, they might have actually seen some sales.