FAKED IN CHINA: “Once, we knew what a knockoff was. A real pair of designer shoes was made in Italy out of leather and steel tacks. The knockoffs were slapped together in Vietnam or Korea using glue and pleather to barely approximate the look of the Italian originals. Nothing else about them​—​the weight, the feel, the durability​—​was at all similar. Today, the ‘real’ Super Hero Squad figures are tiny hunks of colored plastic spit out by slave-wage laborers in Chinese factories. And so are the fakes.”