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reflecting on the phrase "chinesium" 

I do think it can be a useful descriptor, but I'm still not sure I'm 100% at ease with it?

Like. It so much depends on context and audience. I know that there's a whole lot of Chinese-engineered and manufactured products that are extremely fucking good (I've specifically sought them out, sometimes), and that the stuff that's junk is due to economic incentives of manufacturing to cost. Nothing inherent to being Chinese in origin, but there sure is as an overlapping set of economic contexts -- a key one of which is production for US/EU markets that demand goods for hella cheap.

And there's so much stuff out there's that extremely poor quality due to those specific contexts, that a specific term for it does make sense to me?

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re: reflecting on the phrase "chinesium" 

@starkatt "cheapium" might be a better word for it? because the problem is that it's cheap, not that it's chinese
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