I am looking for ideas on what products should be produced locally. Not things that your area can do sn awesome job at and export. Rather things that should be locally produced near everyone.

Feel free to define “locally” as you wish. I am thinking with 5 miles, but with 200 is also good.

Please include your reasoning. Everything from shipping costs, to ownership “punch-ability” are great.

I will kick things off in the comments.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
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    3 days ago

    I’d raise my hand for furniture, clothing, and anything ceramics. Homewares and clothing basically. This already exists in one way or another, but I believe it would be amazing if more people could make a living actually designing and making these things, the products would be of better quality than the mass produced ones, and they would be unique.

    Unfortunately it’s too expensive to become the norm in reality

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Unfortunately it’s too expensive to become the norm in reality

      Only if we believe we all need to have massive amounts of stuff. The world did fine with making what people needed prior to assembky lines and outsourcing .

      • Mothra@mander.xyz
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        3 days ago

        Yes and no, on one side you are right and consumerism in our culture is to blame. But on the other hand, the costs of living today in many parts of the world would make this kind of localised crafts just impossible. Workers wouldn’t earn enough and the products would be prohibitively expensive.

        • ILoveUnions@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          A lot of cost of living cost (rent/housing costs) are basically artificially created out of a combination of corporate and NIMBY s.

          Higher cost items isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If prices goes up but they last 5 decades it’s fine

          • Mothra@mander.xyz
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            3 days ago

            Am I saying something offensive or ridiculously stupid? Just wondering because of the downvotes.

            Answering to you: yes, and more to my point. It’s not just one thing you need to fix, it’s the whole system. And by cost of living I didn’t mean just rent. I meant everything, food, transport, utilities etc. I’ll just do my best while I can.

            • ILoveUnions@lemmy.world
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              3 days ago

              You didn’t say anything offensive or ridiculously stupid, no.

              Most I’d have is a mild disagreement with the statement that it’s impossible to have local places–I feel like only minor adjustments would be needed for many goods in relation to that.