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If we're broadly generalizing three countries with a tremendous amount of engineers: American engineering culture optimizes for safety, Germany engineering optimizes for efficiency, Chinese engineering optimizes for cost.

While Chinese products are the most affordable, German products work the best and last the longest.

American products may not be cheap, nor work the best, but they're usually the safest by a longshot because we're so litigious.



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I’d argue human health and safety is something that is prioritized more in Europe than in the US. Food is a great example.

America: features (certainly not safety)

Europe: quality

Chinese: cost


America: Performance Europe: Utility China: Cost

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