[sdiy] Radfio Shack

[Metrophage]

--- TIm Daugard <daugard at sprintmail.com> wrote:
> A friend got a part time job at an appliance store's repair
> shop. He got yelled at for spending an hour troubleshooting a repair
down to a
> transistor. The owner wanted him to make repairs by selling the
customer new
> boards to replace the board with failure. !! Don't replace the fuse
damaged by
> the lightening strike (a common occurrence around here) sell them a
new
> power supply board!
> 
> . . . and people wonder why nothing can be repaired any more.

Well... money can be a fine form of compensation for goods or services,
but there are many out there who see the symbolic money itself as the
goal - even moreso than whatever they profess to do as a business! The
real horror is the masses appear to be too often willing to sell off
their choices and abilities to create their culture, in exchange for
cheep prices on lots of soon-obsolete consumer goods. Not unlike the
colonists approach to the Native Americans: be seduced into handing
over your resources and land, for which we'll give you pretty trinkets
and empty promises. Instead of being determined to get what they pay
for, more are compelled to lust after getting something for nothing.

Might sound like a tangent towards OT, but I think its easy to see how
this directly applies towards trends in production of musical
instruments and electronic components.

C "legacy of crap" J


		
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