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[Val Keating]

Nothing gets made here because governments of both stripes chose to kill manufacturing.

Germany is a massive exporter and manufacturer and they do it with a high wage setting.

Germany makes the best stuff. All our top shelf tools on site- Germany. All the top shelf mechanical stuff, even hardware- Germany. They’re way more expensive but you get what you pay for. All the cheaper alternatives- China. The Chinese stuff looks ok but the screws are always a bit dodgy with ****ed up threads, nothing fits spot on and the products just don’t last.

 

[koshari]

In which you also end up with disastrous pollution, dangerous workplaces and what amounts to slave labour.

Agreed in some curcumstances . Union carbide disaster a good example. However not all. For example to place a shipping container on our property in bawbaw it required a $1350 planning permit. Same container in bass shire would be a $250 fee. Just another example of imbalance between 2 jurastrictions.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Germany makes the best stuff.

The engineering elite!

 

[koshari]

Germany makes the best stuff. All our top shelf tools on site- Germany. All the top shelf mechanical stuff, even hardware- Germany. They’re way more expensive but you get what you pay for. All the cheaper alternatives- China. The Chinese stuff looks ok but the screws are always a bit dodgy with f’ed up threads, nothing fits spot on and the products just don’t last.

Japanesse stuff is pretty top notch as well but they have outsourced a lot of their stuff to other asian centers

 

[Snake_Baker]

Agreed in some curcumstances . Union carbide dosaster a good example. However not all. For example to place a shipping container on our property in bawbaw it required a $1350 planning permit. Same container in bass shire would be a $250 fee.

The fact that a fee even exists is absurd.

Just another example of imbalance between 2 jurastrictions.

..........must...........resist.........urge.............to..........go...........full............nazi..........

 

[Del191229]

Germany makes the best stuff. All our top shelf tools on site- Germany. All the top shelf mechanical stuff, even hardware- Germany. They’re way more expensive but you get what you pay for. All the cheaper alternatives- China. The Chinese stuff looks ok but the screws are always a bit dodgy with f’ed up threads, nothing fits spot on and the products just don’t last.

Yep, that's what the German high wage, massive social funding, especially into education, model delivers.

 

[Val Keating]

Japanesse stuff is pretty top notch as well but they have outsourced a lot of their stuff to other asian centers

Yeah Japanese stuff is pretty good. USA too.

 

[Del191229]

Yeah Japanese stuff is pretty good. USA too.

USA used to be the world's premier manufacturer.

Destroyed by libertarian cretins. Very deliberately.

 

[Val Keating]

USA used to be the world's premier manufacturer.

Destroyed by libertarian cretins. Very deliberately.

I’m out of my depth with the how and why. My understanding starts and ends with ‘because it’s cheaper to make it overseas’

 

[ferball]

Heh, most people grow out of that sh*t in 2nd year uni hey.

"Free arts degree. Please take one."

 

[Del191229]

"Free arts degree. Please take one."

Yep, just childish immature crap.

 

[ferball]

When will the bubble pop?

When running blockchains measurably warms the planet. I'd say in about three years.

 

[ferball]

Yep, just childish immature crap.

Yeah I remember that from the dunny in an engineering block somewhere.

 

[ferball]

Yep, completely.

The destruction of Muslim centres of learning like Baghdad by the Mongols probably worse.

Why the **** did we repeat that (to an extent?)

 

[koshari]

USA used to be the world's premier manufacturer.

Destroyed by libertarian cretins. Very deliberately.

They still make some pretty good stuff. Only problem its all assembled with fractal bolts. Npt fittings and gauge wiring.

 

[ferball]

Nah this will do...

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That was quite funny and unexpected.

 

[Del191229]

Why the fu** did we repeat that (to an extent?)

Imperial delusions.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Yeah I remember that from the dunny in an engineering block somewhere.

I figured you for a janitor.

 

[ferball]

Why does it have to pop?

The currency exists because of electricity. It is dependent on ongoing, increasing amounts of electricity use. Even without Carbon Dioxide the waste heat from this will eventually cook the planet.

Or there will be fights over who uses electricity that is available - the ordinary people or the campaigners with blockchain currency.

Most currency is just an idea, according to some economic anthropologists it was only when robber barons started standing armies that they attached it to precious metals. To make it easier to steal value that once existed as a relationship between people.

This idea needs energy to maintain it.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Jesus H Christ, David Icke has got nothing on you.

 

[ferball]

Pick the folks with the identity crisis.

I pick you.

 

[ferball]

Whilst i agree to some degree your example is pretty simplistic. Take rice for example. You could prepare a rice based dish cheaper than both those examples. Whilst i maintain people lack discipline there is also a lack of education in some demographics. Especially people that come from households that have always practiced poor neutritional eating habits.

Iam sure iam not telling you anything new but take a look at some of the contents of fellow shoppers trolleys. Full of expensive processed junk. And these are their staples so we are not even taking into account the take out foors they may be eating.

Its not just discipline, its also knowledge and the confidence to make it work.

I had a friend in the US describe the trolley contents of poor white people and some poor hispanic people in the US somewhere in the mid south to southwest, so texas or west of there. I can't remember the context just the results that stuck with me.

One was full of shit the other was full of basic staples like veggies, rice, flour and cheap cuts of meat.

 

[ferball]

True. Convenience plays it’s role

 

[ferball]

What’s a pansexual?

You'll **** anything. Even a frying pan.

 

[Del191229]

Its not just discipline, its also knowledge and the confidence to make it work.

I had a friend in the US describe the trolley contents of poor white people and some poor hispanic people in the US somewhere in the mid south to southwest, so texas or west of there. I can't remember the context just the results that stuck with me.

One was full of sh*t the other was full of basic staples like veggies, rice, flour and cheap cuts of meat.

You see it here. Then when the 2nd gen kids born and raised here get into the shit food, they blow out too.