AND even with Destin’s grill brush being mostly made in USA to prove a point, he still had his kids and other kids (late high school to college aged from the looks of it) assemble and package them instead of having a factory with workers paid a living wage, with retirement, healthcare, a union, etc. He says he pays the kids “better than any other summer job”, but it completely negates any point relating to labor that he wants to make.
That guy seemed a bit deluded, in thinking that his efforts could spark some long-term thinking. I get that he was trying to make a point, and raise alarms about how terrible it is trying to actually get something built in the US, but it took a certain amount of stubbornness to refuse defeat that you’ll take it to the point of using high-school kids to assemble everything and not professional manufacturers.
AND even with Destin’s grill brush being mostly made in USA to prove a point, he still had his kids and other kids (late high school to college aged from the looks of it) assemble and package them instead of having a factory with workers paid a living wage, with retirement, healthcare, a union, etc. He says he pays the kids “better than any other summer job”, but it completely negates any point relating to labor that he wants to make.
That guy seemed a bit deluded, in thinking that his efforts could spark some long-term thinking. I get that he was trying to make a point, and raise alarms about how terrible it is trying to actually get something built in the US, but it took a certain amount of stubbornness to refuse defeat that you’ll take it to the point of using high-school kids to assemble everything and not professional manufacturers.
75 dollars for a grill brush lmao