| ??? 08/08/06 04:38 Read: times |
#121821 - What really killed it Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Richard Erlacher said:
Today's teachers, by and large, have never had a job in which they had to do anything that could be monitored in quantity or quality by any reasonable means. They haven't been in the military, they have seldom been outside the U.S. except, perhaps, on a drunken spring-vacation outing to Mexico. That may or may not be true of K-12 teachers. At least in my part of the world, it is emphatically not true of college instructors. The reason manufacturing is in the toilet, is because the people doing it haven't cared about quality for decades. Nope. Manufacturing is in the toilet because the moguls want to move to a service economy. They're too stupid to realize that while that may work for a country the size of Switzerland, it won't work for the US. They've forgotten, or more likely, never learned the warning of Akio Morita, founder of Sony: "That world power that loses it manufacturing capacity will cease to be a world power." Or maybe they just don't care as long as they've lined their own pockets, and to hell with everyone else. The reason the economy is in the toilet is because the American consumer prides himself on paying a lot for everything, irrespective of its value. I don't think that it's a matter of pride so much as a matter of the perception of not having a choice (along with a large dose of stupidity). The economy is in the toilet mostly because corporate executive mogels (aka morons), in their attempt to lower costs to the bare minimum by downsizing and outsourcing, have eliminated their customer base. When the workers are unemployed, who's going to buy the crap the moguls are selling? To some extent, they believe they can force people to be consumers by buying laws from Congress (DRM is a step in that direction), but they're too dumb to realize that you can't squeeze blood from a turnip. These idiots should learn a bit about history. The French Revolution would be a good place to start. In all fairness, not all CEOs are brain dead. Jim Sinegal of Costco appears to be a modern day Henry Ford. But at the moment, I can't think of another example. |
