• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Nah, China had a civil war that spanned WW2, it was only after that that Asia became a manufacturing base for western companies.

    Before then western countires did their own things in factories.

    Think of all the toys that contain plastic, from lego (1949), to barbie (1959), to most electronics, they didn’t exist as we know them today prior to WW2.

    Before then toys were mostly made of wood and metals like tin, and were made more locally and nationally. People had jobs in factories over here, rather than over there.