Posted by JRSutton on August 02, 2012 at 07:32:38 from (75.130.109.233):
In Reply to: Re: chineese junk posted by Pitch on August 01, 2012 at 05:46:35:
Trust me when I say chinese manufacturers are JUST as concerned with profit as big bad evil american manufacturers.
My brother and I are in business together, he lives in china doing quality control consulting with manufacturing businesses who make parts for american companies.
The reason we have so much work there is because those chinese manufactures will do anything they can think of to make the products cheaper to maximize profits.
They'll win a job, agree to the specs, and slowly over time start substituting materials and loosening up on quality.
They don't care. For every job they have, there are ten more waiting for them.
They take advantage of the cultural/language divide between our countries - and the fact that our nation has gotten iteself stuck between a rock and a hard place
The cold hard fact is that we're a rich nation that is becoming a poor nation.
We have millions of consumers who want everything - but we're getting poorer and can't afford it all.
The chinese are more than happy to supply us with )#(*$# that LOOKS like the products we want, for half the cost.
By the time we figout out it's )#($*# they're onto the next run of some other )(#*$ product knockoff.
The american companies selling it end up taking any hit by upset consumers. They hire my brother to go straigthen the manufacturers out - that works for half a year - and the cycle repeats itself.
We're our own worst enemies.
What are we going to do about it? Try to make stuff HERE? where you have to pay 30 bucks an hour for simple labor, pay a fortune for energy, can't fire bad workers, get fined out the )*(#$ to get rid of your dirty waste???
All to make a product that'll be competing with products that look identical and are priced so cheaply that consumers figure "if it breaks, it's cheap enough to just buy another one".
Like it or not - that's what we're up against.
China will devour us. The chinese workers are coming off the hard life of poverty level farming. They make a little money, sock it away and they're happy for the opportunity.
Just like workers in this country used to do.
The american consumer lives (comparatively) a lavish lifestyle. The poorest of the poor have a nice apartment with a tv and an xbox - and an insatiable desire for more more more - need the fancy shoes, need the car, need the toys etc etc.
Boy - I'm going way off topic today.
Just in a ranting mood - I better go find a non-tractor place to rant.
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