OK, it’s not “one photo” but a photo collage.
Are you saying the Chinese are shameless intellectual property thieves?
Who knew!
Labor is the biggest cost in manufacturing. When you have a labor pool of 1 Billion plus, it’s not a problem.......... 😲🤑😱
At this late date, no one should be surprised by this. China can produce just about anything except an original idea. And maybe they are smarter in that thinking- why reinvent the wheel when they can just steal the idea from someone else whose already done it. Even the kung flu was funded by US research dollars.
It should also be apparent that free trade is never the friend of the people who have the highest standard of living and highest wages because manufactories will source their factory labor elsewhere to avoid paying US wages so that their products are more profitable.
Ah, a Chineseum processing facility.
Remember the Hollywood shlockudrama called Norma Rae starring Sally Field? It was about agitators union organizing the textile mills. At the time the movie was made there were hundreds (thousands?) of textile mills throughout the South. Almost every town had some tie to the textile industry. Now you will find nothing but empty mills, the machinery moved to Central America, Dominican Republic, or Bangladesh.
Nothing to show for unionizing but lost jobs and empty mills.
Years ago I watched a TV program where a reporter was interviewing an American business owner. This guy owned a company that made door locks for cars.
He said that the Chinese were exporting into the US door locks that cost less than his material costs were alone. They weren’t as good as his locks. But they were good enough.
So to save his company he was going to have to move production to China. And he was darn near crying. Friends and relatives who had worked for him for decades were all going to be out of work.
Free trade, ain’t it great?
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It don’t take no collage degree to see it’s more than one photo.
Cutco knives, made in Olean NY, are wonderful. I also have Shun and Wusthof.
You can‘t test quality into a product. If dumping more product onto shore becomes unaffordable, better workers are needed.
The right labor is now at a premium in China.
These are the type of Chinese made knives you see advertised on Facebook with the phony Japanese lettering and the laser etched Damascus finish.
The killer thing is . . .
over the past few months, I’ve been replacing some things that needed replacing.
90% of the boxes they have been packaged in read “Made in China”.
Any and all electronics, auto parts, Vacuum, lighting, storage items, minor furniture pieces, dishware etc . . .
The US factories are gone or closed.
FWIW - Big and Small
Got a great couch for the play room from the “This End Up” Artisan Collection.
Very solid, US made, looks great.
Best Can Opener EVUH! from EZ-Duz-It.
got 5 and gave some to family (that’s me,. the Big Spender!)
some great stuff is still made here.
DJT was on to this and was going to tax the Chicoms to level the playing field. However, the Marxists did not want fair trading policies and undermined the election.
More like - an American Fortune 500 corporation decided to off shore it's kitchen utensil manufacturing to China to shave a quarter of a penny off the manufacturing costs and to get away from the union that shut their production line down for 71/2 months during the last strike.
So they transferred their production technology to China and shipped all their production machinery to China, giving them a 51% stake in the company as per Chinese law.
After getting several years of shoddy goods from China, the corp closed their cooking utensil division and began buying their knives from a Chinese company made up of the more skilled Chinese employees of their defunct manufacturing division.
Their biggest competitor is the same company above who is manufacturing their own line of superior , yet cheaper knives knocked off from the Fortune 500 companies defunct product line.
Gee, hard to tell who is winning
My contention as well. In the end the consumer loses. Washers and dishwashers are breaking apart under 5 years when they use to last decades. Heck they even try to sell you on a 2 to 4 year warranty, basically saying they can’t guarantee the quality of their products any more.
Funny how you never hear much from the Free Traders around here anymore.
Now that China is a superpower.
But hey their wallets were more important than America.
we used to call it reverse engineering
my last tech company, we used to buy CCD cameras(among other things) from all over and tear them apart
looking for stuff we could use, and what they had already stolen...
What’s nefarious about that? They’re knives, they ain’t technical, they ain’t hard. The way to make them profitably is scale, crank out a bunch quick.
Sell product in the US at a price that severely undercuts US competition and forces the majority of hard goods manufacturers out of business.
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Next step buy the company when its forced out of business or at least buy all their blueprints, specs, dies and tooling