Just within the last few days I had one of the newer fluorescent 65w night lights fail. I replaced it and in doing so decided to see if there were any visual indications of the problem. In the process of doing that I made a couple of realizations:
The light mounts on it's own galv. steel L shaped pole which somebody made the raw stock (from ores and high temp steel mill processes, including zinc plating process) and somebody else cut it and bent it. Has the following: A cast aluminum cover (more mill processes). A stamped alum shade with plastic insert. A photosensitive switch with added electronic circuitry A fairly complicated circuit card with 4 transformers, electrolytic capacitors, couple of inverter power transistors and associated circuitry A fabricated metal bracket to hold the light base inside the unit A high voltage/heat tolerante receptacle (base) for the bulb A Fluorescent bulb with more electronic goodies in the base Somebody assembled it, stocked it, packaged it, shipped it, received it, advertised it, stocked again on the receiving end, and everybody in the process made money.
At the big box store it sells for under $40.
This ISN'T going away. If we manufactured that in the USA with 100% domestic parts no telling what the cost would be and it would sit on the shelf at the store because we couldn't afford to buy it.
Sorry but this is a fact of life and about 20 years ago we were warned that the USA was to become a "service oriented" economy and sure-nuf. We all know the a lot of the service jobs don't pay what the manufacturing jobs used to pay. But when you can buy this light for less than $40 and a 48" wide screen digital TV with remote and all the rest of the goodies for under $300, and all the appliances you buy for a song in your house and on and on, you don't need all that much income. Besides you are in a lower tax bracket and you pay a smaller % of income taxes.
So don't knock it. Go get yourself educated for the field of interest, paying what you want to earn, and find that job. I guarantee you they are still out there and so is the pay. Just have to hustle and find it.
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