I love this! I think we sometimes take the world around us too seriously so this departure into "whimsy" is great!! I'll admit... anything chocolate catches my eye! Back in 2005, my first visit to Australia, I came around the corner in a grocery store aisle to discover an entire row of nothing but chocolate in a variety of options. Nirvana! And I re-dreamed about that day for years...until a visit to Austria where I discovered Casali Rum-Kokos. As provided by their website: "A unique combination of milk chocolate, coconut and rum..." OMG! These little chocolate (filled with rum) balls are hugely addicting! For years, we had friends in Europe serving as our "rum chocolate mules" sending us packages of these... and then I discovered you can buy them on Amazon (of course). My wife had to put me on restriction for a while! :-) I'd write more but I have to go meet my contact in a dark parking lot to get my fix of Thin Mints! Damn those Girl Scouts and their devious sales techniques!
Also check out the selection of Eggo waffles and Tostitos some time.
But perhaps China is on its way? I wonder what its first Oreo-like product will be? What product will be ubiquitous on China grocer's shelves and reflect the spectrum of Chinese tastes and activities?
While China may see less and less US stuff sitting on its shelves, until I start seeing a bunch of China based food, fashion, and entertainment in the US economy I'm not too worried about ol' Thucydides Trap. Yes, products might be made in China, but they are designed for US uses and tastes. Check out the difference between a Honda minivan sold and driven around Tokyo and one in Alabama.
Seems to me trade wars are won in store aisles rather than halls of government. And should government be involved in steering citizen consumption anyway? Isn't individual economic activity one of the most basic freedoms? And in today's explosion of expressing identity and individualism will national consumption ever reach the mega commercial days of the Pepsi/Coca-cola wars? Or Nike dominance? Or McDonalds, PIzza Hut, and Taco Bell fast casual saturation?
Is it time for a post-national economic theory? One that understands and centralizes that consumption and purchasing power are individual decisions and that national wealth derives from citizen wealth. That wealth is produced by activity. Conservation and sustainability are certainly important but need to be balanced with consumption and revenue or economic systems fail.
Lots of folks in this forum smarter than me and I'm sure are working on this and more. Back to my low skilled and repetitious work for the day.
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I love this! I think we sometimes take the world around us too seriously so this departure into "whimsy" is great!! I'll admit... anything chocolate catches my eye! Back in 2005, my first visit to Australia, I came around the corner in a grocery store aisle to discover an entire row of nothing but chocolate in a variety of options. Nirvana! And I re-dreamed about that day for years...until a visit to Austria where I discovered Casali Rum-Kokos. As provided by their website: "A unique combination of milk chocolate, coconut and rum..." OMG! These little chocolate (filled with rum) balls are hugely addicting! For years, we had friends in Europe serving as our "rum chocolate mules" sending us packages of these... and then I discovered you can buy them on Amazon (of course). My wife had to put me on restriction for a while! :-) I'd write more but I have to go meet my contact in a dark parking lot to get my fix of Thin Mints! Damn those Girl Scouts and their devious sales techniques!
Also check out the selection of Eggo waffles and Tostitos some time.
But perhaps China is on its way? I wonder what its first Oreo-like product will be? What product will be ubiquitous on China grocer's shelves and reflect the spectrum of Chinese tastes and activities?
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While China may see less and less US stuff sitting on its shelves, until I start seeing a bunch of China based food, fashion, and entertainment in the US economy I'm not too worried about ol' Thucydides Trap. Yes, products might be made in China, but they are designed for US uses and tastes. Check out the difference between a Honda minivan sold and driven around Tokyo and one in Alabama.
Seems to me trade wars are won in store aisles rather than halls of government. And should government be involved in steering citizen consumption anyway? Isn't individual economic activity one of the most basic freedoms? And in today's explosion of expressing identity and individualism will national consumption ever reach the mega commercial days of the Pepsi/Coca-cola wars? Or Nike dominance? Or McDonalds, PIzza Hut, and Taco Bell fast casual saturation?
Is it time for a post-national economic theory? One that understands and centralizes that consumption and purchasing power are individual decisions and that national wealth derives from citizen wealth. That wealth is produced by activity. Conservation and sustainability are certainly important but need to be balanced with consumption and revenue or economic systems fail.
Lots of folks in this forum smarter than me and I'm sure are working on this and more. Back to my low skilled and repetitious work for the day.