08-08-2021, 12:29 AM
Good info Jim. But I’ll call you out on the “hype”.
Mercedes used to ship their sprinter vans in three disassembled units to be put together in the USA. That was done to avoid tariffs too. But it was also good paying American jobs
Assembly work done by well paid and in American conditions is different than that done overseas and while the value of that difference is debatable the quality is usually better.
Quality control and assurance and at the end of the day a person on the end of the phone that speaks English and can help troubleshoot.
For you or I and the others that get this, phone support isn’t a big deal. So yeah we can buy SOK or Chinchin specials and sort it out.
But someone creating a work around, making a company and paying American workers a living wage is what is sadly missing in North America. It’s not hype.
Reliance on overseas cheap products, is fine when it’s a T-shirt or running shoes. But it’s not when we end up feeding our pets with toxic plastics, or the other horror stories out of a brutally repressive communist country that politically see the west as pigs to feed, make fat and stupid.
I get the unicorn and rainbows element of my point. We’re very unlikely to ever have grade A cells manufactured in the west. Lack of raw materials and an environmental protection agency. However, American designed, assembled, and supported; is worth 20% in my mind. Add to this politics, green practices, human working conditions... I’ll support that “hype” with my dollars, let them ripoff the American design and make it cheaper, for others that put cost before everything else.
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Mercedes used to ship their sprinter vans in three disassembled units to be put together in the USA. That was done to avoid tariffs too. But it was also good paying American jobs
Assembly work done by well paid and in American conditions is different than that done overseas and while the value of that difference is debatable the quality is usually better.
Quality control and assurance and at the end of the day a person on the end of the phone that speaks English and can help troubleshoot.
For you or I and the others that get this, phone support isn’t a big deal. So yeah we can buy SOK or Chinchin specials and sort it out.
But someone creating a work around, making a company and paying American workers a living wage is what is sadly missing in North America. It’s not hype.
Reliance on overseas cheap products, is fine when it’s a T-shirt or running shoes. But it’s not when we end up feeding our pets with toxic plastics, or the other horror stories out of a brutally repressive communist country that politically see the west as pigs to feed, make fat and stupid.
I get the unicorn and rainbows element of my point. We’re very unlikely to ever have grade A cells manufactured in the west. Lack of raw materials and an environmental protection agency. However, American designed, assembled, and supported; is worth 20% in my mind. Add to this politics, green practices, human working conditions... I’ll support that “hype” with my dollars, let them ripoff the American design and make it cheaper, for others that put cost before everything else.
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