{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "what did you mean by Chinese Supplier Disease/optimization for practiced standards? Google doesn't return any relevant results...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/647534666075832320/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>maesamine</strong> asked: <p>what did you mean by Chinese Supplier Disease/optimization for practiced standards? Google doesn't return any relevant results and I'm not familiar enough with the subject in question.</p></div>\n<p>In the last decade a lot of people sourcing components/packaging/etc. from Chinese manufacturers have found a supplier contract they&rsquo;re satisfied with only to find, as the contract continues at agreed payment rates, themselves getting gradually lower-and-lower quality versions of their goods, more cheaply manufactured from less lower-quality material, until it&rsquo;s finally worth doing something about</p>"}