Re: Made In China

happygolfcartrider · ‎05-10-2013

On 4/2/2014 millieshops said:
As labor in China becomes more and more expensive, you'll be able to buy more made in America.

As someone old enough to remember when that was generally true, I can tell you it will not be an unmixed blessing. You will be supporting more local workers, but you're also quite likely to see prices rise significantly unless companies can do more with fewer workers than they used to. That's what has been happening over the last few decades. We actually manufacture more overall now than we used to, but that doesn't translate to more good jobs because technology has changed manufacturing so much.

Millieshops, you are so right about the prices being higher if made in the USA but that is because of unions. In the early days unions were a very good thing, now they just run the price up on everything because of their demands. In a union it takes at least 4 people to do 1 persons job.

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suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

On 4/3/2014 golfcartrider said:
On 4/2/2014 millieshops said:
As labor in China becomes more and more expensive, you'll be able to buy more made in America.

As someone old enough to remember when that was generally true, I can tell you it will not be an unmixed blessing. You will be supporting more local workers, but you're also quite likely to see prices rise significantly unless companies can do more with fewer workers than they used to. That's what has been happening over the last few decades. We actually manufacture more overall now than we used to, but that doesn't translate to more good jobs because technology has changed manufacturing so much.

Millieshops, you are so right about the prices being higher if made in the USA but that is because of unions. In the early days unions were a very good thing, now they just run the price up on everything because of their demands. In a union it takes at least 4 people to do 1 persons job.

I didn't miss your other point in which you clearly exhorted us to say "No thanks" to any product not made in the U.S, and I'm definitely not missing this one.

Given that they are full of human beings, no bureaucracy, whether it be government, unions, or corporations, is immune from self-interest or corruption.

So I heartily disagree that unions are the sole or even main reason for globalization or outsourcing. But I'm not going to elaborate on your political point, other than to say that I fear that anti-union sentiment and scapegoating serves only to give businesses and corporations even more license to exploit.

~Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

kittymomNC · ‎08-09-2012

On 4/3/2014 golfcartrider said:
On 4/2/2014 millieshops said:
As labor in China becomes more and more expensive, you'll be able to buy more made in America.

As someone old enough to remember when that was generally true, I can tell you it will not be an unmixed blessing. You will be supporting more local workers, but you're also quite likely to see prices rise significantly unless companies can do more with fewer workers than they used to. That's what has been happening over the last few decades. We actually manufacture more overall now than we used to, but that doesn't translate to more good jobs because technology has changed manufacturing so much.

Millieshops, you are so right about the prices being higher if made in the USA but that is because of unions. In the early days unions were a very good thing, now they just run the price up on everything because of their demands. In a union it takes at least 4 people to do 1 persons job.

Could you give us your source for this so-called fact? In my opinion, this is a ridiculous statement - no company, unionized or not, would allow anything like that...and it would not be to the union's advantage to have that happen. Just another F@X News talking point.......