That’s an outright lie. You are running purely on emotion not reason or facts. Buy a loudspeaker from Eminence Speaker in Eminence, KY, and tell them to use ONLY American sourced parts (something they don’t do because of pricing).
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Whats the price of Eminence Speaker, and its relative quality?
Whats the price of your speaker, and its relative quality?
I will guarantee that if you give me an Eminence speaker built solely in the US (including all the parts), I will match the quality 100% and do it for half the price. Guaranteed, and I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is - I do it every day, been doing it every day for the last 10 years.
Even Eminence doesn’t build with 100% American parts, because the cost is so much higher. Steel, oil, wood, cobalt, copper are all world-commodity products. A barrel of oil is the same worldwide, as is a ton of steel or copper.
The difference is that you can pay a $20/hour employee for 30 minutes of labor to assemble the parts, or pay a $0.50/hour employee for 30 minutes of labor. That’s a $9.75 difference in cost.
There’s a reason Eminence sources parts from China, and not only has a factory in the US but in China, too - price. The quality is the same; the price is different.
Where the US leads and excels is in research, innovation, and engineering. Invention. We work smarter, not harder. And these jobs are worth a LOT more - the output of one engineer is multiplied by the 1000 assemblers who build his design. THAT is our strength, always has been. To think otherwise is folly...
I’ll gladly take a team of 10 smart US engineers and 1000 Chinese or Indian workers, versus that same team of 10 US engineers and 10 more US assemblers. Why? I can turn out a LOT more economic value to the country - more profit, meaning more TAXES. Meaning we pay more for the defense of this nation...
Heck, if you want to get right down to it, those who are most profitable by offshoring, and who have the biggest payrolls are the ones who are most American! Why? Because they pay the most taxes. To NOT leverage your assets to their maximum effectiveness is not only anti-American, it’s anti-Biblical...
Go bury your talent in the field; I’ll invest mine with others and return the money many times over.