Posted on 06/16/2021 12:00:54 PM PDT by Rebelbase
This photo collage is from a knife manufacturer in China that I have hosted on imagebb. The full image will be posted below in the first comment.
https://i.ibb.co/px3SrHy/r-BVa-EFc-Jx-VGAEG2-XAAMukmyn-YXY054.jpg
Here is the same photo from the original source.
https://www.dhresource.com/0x0/f2/albu/g4/M01/42/93/rBVaEFcJxVGAEG2XAAMukmynYXY054.jpg
Here is my interpretation:
Obtain an original US product, disassemble it and scan the pieces into a CAD program.
Send the CAD data to a CNC milling machine which will replicate the product components to virtually identical specs. Obviously cheaper raw materials are used but in some cases the same quality material is used which produces a virtual clone.
Use cheap labor to mill any other parts needed.
Assemble the product using labor at a fraction of US labor cost.
Sell product in the US at a price that severely undercuts US competition and forces the majority of hard goods manufacturers out of business.
OK, it’s not “one photo” but a photo collage.
A photo of a collage, is still one photo.
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.
On top of that our government has been importing workers for the jobs that can’t be exported.
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.
I am pretty sure the Chinese have been making knives before anyone in the USA.
if we did not want our shores overflowing with foreign goods we would do a few simple things.
if we did not want geographically displaced persons crossing our borders we would do a few simple things.
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.
I remember reading a story a decade or two ago about a plant in China that made Jeep Grand Cherokees. One day a Chrysler corp exec team went there to visit the factory and on the street they saw lots of people driving what looked like Jeep Grand Cherokees, but they had a different logo on them.
They found out that during the “off shift” they were still assembling the same vehicles as fast as they could, but just not for Chrysler. ;)
That doesn't bode well for U.S. workers, but I'm not sure what the upside is for China.
We don’t have the fortitude to do those simple things. Liberals would rather starve than change ideologies.
They don’t even try to make it better, but they sure can make it cheaper. Not just in the cost of the labor, the materials are chosen for minimal machining and of lower grade of structural integrity.
But hell, it sure looks good in the packaging that is virtually bulletproof.
As those jobs are replaced by robots it will become moot. You can locate in whatever country has the lowest taxes and other peripheral costs.
What you are talking about is wage arbitrage—it happened within the United States when northern manufacturers moved south.
Today the Chinese are themselves getting burned by even lower cost producers in Asia—check out the “made in” info on various products and you can see who those countries are.
Cutco knives, made in Olean NY, are wonderful. I also have Shun and Wusthof.
We used to make shoes.
We used to make furniture.
We used to make steel.
We used to make tools.
We used to make money......... 😢
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