For the last 10(?) years we have had access to low cost ukuleles from countries where politics have allowed compromises in workplace conditions, worker pay rates and environmental standards. We all know that is the case and have still bought the products.
You can't suddenly go on about "hyperbolic sales speak" and get annoyed by the practices of ukulele merchandising companies if you have been part of the major consumer base that has supported the products for the past 10(?) years. If you weren't such an accepting and lucrative and responsive consumer base, the industry would have been forced to move in a completely different direction starting around 2010.
Maybe now is a good time to admit the failure as a group of consumers and make a change to force improved pay and working conditions for the workers and much more attention to environmental standards in the factories and in the materials used to make the components? If you just stop naively and gullibly believing everything on Amazon and other cheap internet sites and refuse to buy the product you will force a major change? Just stop buying ukuleles without finding out where the factory is and what the real materials used really are? Instead of bragging about how cheap the product is and how good you think it sounds?
Maybe you can ask why you can't employ the citizens of your own country in factories that have a high output of ukuleles. Maybe you can ask why with all the technological advances in your own country, why can't you rescue the people of a city like say Chicago and re-invent the factories of the early 20th century? Or similar cities in trouble in other countries? The entrepreneurs are in your country, there are plenty of people looking for work, you have plantations of wood, where is the political will, has it been stolen from you or did you give it away $ by low cost $ buying cheap imports?