By the 2000s, nearly every industrialized nation had developed a paid leave policy that allowed parents to stay home for months — up to a year in some places — with their infants, giving them more room to adjust to parenting, learn their children’s needs and troubleshoot the tough stuff. The United States is the only outlier. To this day, it remains the only industrialized nation to offer no such policy.

That means most U.S. mothers return to work within two months of giving birth. That’s no time at all in baby world. Two-month-olds are still waking multiple times a night, their parents are still in the throes of sleep deprivation. Moms are often still figuring out feeding, nap schedules, developmental milestones and just about everything else.

To achieve a life that doesn’t feel like a 24-hour circus, working parents lean on solutions they can access from their phones. The United States accounts for roughly 10 percent of all global baby product revenue, though it’s home to just 4 percent of the world population. Only China draws in a larger share of the global revenue (14 percent), but with a population four times the size of the United States. By 2033, the U.S. market is expected to grow another 40 percent, and the fastest growth will be in one sector: online purchases.

I know, but for the insides to hold up that long for that price nowadays is decent. In older days, shoes were made to last longer, and specifically fitted at the heel and toe.

China is socialist.

It won’t in socialism. China is doing rather well, overall.

https://www.okoone.com/spark/marketing-growth/high-value-vs-high-volume-customers-where-should-your-focus-be/

I just paid about $200 (including taxes and shipping) for a pair of leather work sneakers that should last about a year, if I take good care of them, but sketchers usually break down inside about 3 months of wear. I didn’t want to spend it, because gestures at everything, but I had to make the hard decision.

“Low end margin, high volume” markets.

https://www.okoone.com/spark/marketing-growth/high-value-vs-high-volume-customers-where-should-your-focus-be/

Cell phones should last a decade, and could.

🤣🤣🤣

I don’t know where you are, but that’s what it is where I am.

Craigslist is the best way to get robbed, killed and more.

Tears rolling

It’s been obvious for multiple decades. 250-500 years.

It’s been obvious for decades.

Thanks for the book rec.

Do you have any actual points or just "hurry durr, I am very smart? “

In your “clever” nicknames.

Were any US citizens? I believe some US citizens were paid by the US government.

The media was always racist, they just hid it better… Sometimes.

I think so.