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<blockquote data-quote="emjem24" data-source="post: 1449654" data-attributes="member: 21768">I couldn&#039;t agree more with this article. The overall quality of products that Americans buy and consume has drastically declined. If there was a word to be used in association with this phenomena I would say it would be mediocre. In my own life and experience, I&#039;ve noticed, that from the small products (cords, light bulbs, etc.), to the bigger ticket items (cars, houses, etc.), the quality has been sharply reduced. I was born in 1970&#039;s and grew up in the 1980&#039;s, and don&#039;t remember my childhood being marred by so much, to be impolite, crappy products. I feel like Americans no longer demand better. Our society demands short cuts, lower prices, instant rewards when, in essence, what we receive is a compromised facsimile... in all aspects of our lives. In our major institutions and in our interpersonal relationships. I think that the US needs to start having a conversation on the effects on globalization and what we&#039;re willing to accept (and not accept). We were starting to have such a conversation until different crises hit. I wonder what the average American can do about the heaping junkyard that is overtaking our lives. Do we continue to put up with it and hope that it will eventually change? Do we look the other way while Main Street is finally, once and for all, wiped out for good? Or do we fight to keep the culture of our hometowns and Main Streets alive for generations to come.I want better. I&#039;m now in my 40&#039;s and can see just how bad things have become. I don&#039;t want to wake up and find that we&#039;re a failed state because we stopped demanding better from our corporate overlords and those who hold the reigns of power. How we get out of this mess to something better that we can all enjoy is the question in search of an answer.-Erin</blockquote>

[QUOTE="emjem24, post: 1449654, member: 21768"] I couldn't agree more with this article. The overall quality of products that Americans buy and consume has drastically declined. If there was a word to be used in association with this phenomena I would say it would be mediocre. In my own life and experience, I've noticed, that from the small products (cords, light bulbs, etc.), to the bigger ticket items (cars, houses, etc.), the quality has been sharply reduced. I was born in 1970's and grew up in the 1980's, and don't remember my childhood being marred by so much, to be impolite, crappy products. I feel like Americans no longer demand better. Our society demands short cuts, lower prices, instant rewards when, in essence, what we receive is a compromised facsimile... in all aspects of our lives. In our major institutions and in our interpersonal relationships. I think that the US needs to start having a conversation on the effects on globalization and what we're willing to accept (and not accept). We were starting to have such a conversation until different crises hit. I wonder what the average American can do about the heaping junkyard that is overtaking our lives. Do we continue to put up with it and hope that it will eventually change? Do we look the other way while Main Street is finally, once and for all, wiped out for good? Or do we fight to keep the culture of our hometowns and Main Streets alive for generations to come. I want better. I'm now in my 40's and can see just how bad things have become. I don't want to wake up and find that we're a failed state because we stopped demanding better from our corporate overlords and those who hold the reigns of power. How we get out of this mess to something better that we can all enjoy is the question in search of an answer. -Erin [/QUOTE]

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