Where is the pride in workmanship that USED to exist in the USA?
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It seems to me that the manufacturers are all about quotas, the more of the product that they get out the more money they will make with no regards to the quality of their products, or the headaches they give to use, there was a time when you could actually get high quality stuff, like my mom still has the mixer she got in the 50's, today you buy one and the first batch of cookies you make the thing has locked up. Which is just what they want to happen, it breaks, you buy another..and it repeats it self in every thing we buy, from cars to computers, to homes, to tv..anything we buy has a warranty of about 2 days and the quality of none
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its in mexico, india, malaysia, and china now
its in mexico, india, malaysia, and china now
We're a convenience society. We want what we want now, and don't want to wait. You want something nice? Then you have to work for it. You just want something? Then you can get an inferior but adequate copy right away.
It went out the door with progress. Everything! Building,any product made, Doctors, Lawyers,Teachers all of it.
Levittown changed everything. After World War 2, many homes were needed in a hurry as there were a multitude of marriages and the Baby Boom. Tract housing became the norm and the quality of these homes has, in general, been going downhill ever since. People want an affordable home and the average homebuyer doesn't want to pay dearly for the cost of a high-quality house.
You know, i agree with you. Have you noticed a shift in the public's attitude as a whole? When was the last time a sales clerk smiled at you? If you need service in your home, do you get a callback without leaving several messages?Have you seen a gentileman give up his seat for a lady or a young person for the elderly?Good grace and manners seem to be a thing of the past.
Well the consumer continues to want products, furniture, electronics, clothing for less money...the result are superstores like Wal-mart. You pay less and get less quality. Mass production has replaced quality production.
I have a gorgeous china cabinet that was hand made at the turn of the century it's beautiful.( It was given to me by a family member who could afford it). I look at wal-mart and target furniture and it makes me sick.
If I can't afford the best, i won't buy a substitute. we live in a consumer society. newer is no longer nicer it's just shoddy.
good luck
Well, there's two sides to the issue. On the one hand, you've got laborers who -- at the mass market level -- are trying to work as economically as they can (getting more accomplished with less effort) so that they will be getting paid more for more-or-less the same amount of output. They're being managed by corporates that want to get the same amount of effort out of them resulting in more output to get more money for the same amount of effort. Pride doesn't enter into it and if the laborer actually sees the end result of a complex construction, it's an anomaly -- more so if they can tell the difference between one and another in the modern insta-suburbs.
On the flip side, the mass market (which most of the laborers belong to) take their meager paychecks and try to do two conflicting things at once -- buy the goods and services that boost their ego and sense of belonging and save for the future so that they won't be broke and destitute at the first auto accident or unplanned pregnancy. Well, there's only so much money available to save, so the rest of the money needs to be spent in an economically savvy fashion -- which would be buying cheap stuff at Wal-Mart or Target or wherever... except that most of it is probably made in China or the Philippines or somesuch. But the point is that the mass market has the item and doesn't feel excluded or poor, and they regard this as a good thing and their standard of living goes up.
Insta-suburbs are built mostly by latino immigrants, many of whose residence is of questionable legality. But you know what? Lots more people own private residences out here than they did in 1909.
So from an economic point of view, would you rather have pride? Or results?