Cashback/rewards schemes on cards ought to be illegal anyway. The money ultimately comes from higher prices.

Cards like Amex are just not accepted in most small businesses in Australia already (but this is by choice, not law)

There’s no free lunch

While there are still a lot of low quality things produced en masse in China, this take is getting more and more out of date.

South Korea and Japan used to make cheap crap too until their industrial output developed to the point the average quality was high.

We have reached this point to a certain degree with China too. Their EVs sure as hell are better than Tesla’s.

There’s a lot of high quality stuff coming out of China now, along with crap.