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In reply to the discussion: Andrea Greenspan: "Sending jobs overseas can make a stronger company and more hiring at home" [View all]progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)34. Bingo!!!
THIS!!! People can't understand why being able to buy 100 pairs of shoes at Payless isn't a good thing. We used to have modest homes, with modest closets. I'm talking in the 80s here, not the 50s. We owned some nice stuff for work. A few pairs of jeans, maybe 10 pairs of shoes.
Now?? I watch HGTV and see these couples who are buying a home, and they each work in maybe a call center, or insurance office... and they HAVE to have a giant walk in closet for each of them, for all of their clothes, PLUS a "shoe closet" for her.
These are people who probably make 25k-30k a year. And they need 100 pairs of shoes? Consumerism has killed America in so many ways.. and sending the jobs overseas is another part of that.
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Andrea Greenspan: "Sending jobs overseas can make a stronger company and more hiring at home" [View all]
Amerigo Vespucci
Jul 2012
OP
Apple is a good example; if they manufactured in the US, they'd have been priced too high to grow.
FarCenter
Jul 2012
#3
The labor cost differential is higher and there would be productivity and quality problems as well.
FarCenter
Jul 2012
#32
you wouldn't be able to work them like dogs, and pay them a pittance. you mean. n/t
progressivebydesign
Jul 2012
#35
Yes, and even if you could, the scrappage rate and warranty costs would be too high.
FarCenter
Jul 2012
#39