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Is Gluten Sensitivity for Real?
Brooklyn1 wrote:
>Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>sf wrote:
>>>dsi1 wrote:
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>>>> I worked at a factory that made widgets. I told my supervisor that the box of switches being checked out was not turning on reliably. The response was that as long as it worked most of the time to just pass it. I thought that was a little nutty considering that it was the only user control on the gizmo. OTOH, the guy was the boss and the boss is always right. The truth is that the Chinese do not have exclusive rights on shoddy products and our manufacturing practices are in no way superior. People get cheap crap from China because they're only willing to pay for cheap crap.
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>>> A lot of that happens because of competition by off soil manufacturers
>>> who pay their workers slave wages.
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>>No, it happens because some people are greedy, others are irresponsible,
>>others just don't care or are too lazy to fix the problem. It happens
>>in factories where the workers are well paid. It happened long before we
>>traded with China. Just look at the US auto industry and the crap they
>>turned out for decades by well paid workers. How long is the list of
>>defects on that brand new '58 Chevy?
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>>I've been around manufacturing plants for over 50 years and it has been
>>going on for that time.
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>>I've also seen some quality product from China Many have been made by
>>slaves or babies, but the quality equals anything the US can do.
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>US manufacturing tops all other countries combined for producing
>crap... the US worker no longer possesses the skills needed to produce
>high quality product, and it's been that way for at least the past 20
>years, more like 30 years. The US no longer has apprenticeship
>programs, most skilled workers are imported but the US gets the worst
>of those, the least skilled and the most felonious. Once a society's
>desk drivers surpass its product producers its economy dives into a
>downward death spiral... the US has been in the midst of that downward
>death spiral for many years now, well beyond the point of return. It's
>near impossible to find young people in the US who know how to make
>things. Most US manufacturing plants have shut their doors some have
>moved to other countries where they can find skilled workers. Many
>products are assembled in the US but not with parts made in the US...
>and they are assembled shoddily.
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