On Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 2:25:43 PM UTC-10, wrote:
> On Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 2:45:25 PM UTC-8, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > On 2/7/2015 3:08 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Everything is made in China because China has a glut of highly skilled
> > > workers in the manufacturing trades, and since there are so many
> > > people who need those jobs they work cheap. The US has no skilled
> > > labor apprentiship programs anymore... once the present aging skilled
> > > work force dies off it's really gonna be all over for the US... a
> > > society cannot survive with all desk drivers/pencil pushers. Better
> > > teach your grand children how to pick produce, mow lawns, and do
> > > laundry.
> > >
> >
> > In 10 years a skilled machine operator will be the guy putting the
> > returnable cans in the machine for the deposit.
>
> You don't have to wait that long.
>
> Service manuals for consumer electronics no longer come with schematics,
> because service technicians only have to know which pc board
> to replace.

Sometimes they don't even got that far - we've gone past replacing pc boards and moved into just replacing the entire product.