[sdiy] Humans are not Becoming Smaller (was: SMD comming your way)

[Paul Maddox]

Hi,

> What you mean is that this began happening when MBAs began rolling off
> the university assembly lines with their meaningless but arrogant
> degrees, causing companies to maximize profits to ridiculous
> extremes, cheapening products while claiming "new and improved,"
> eliminating pension plans, making more products designed to be replaced
> rather than repaired - take box fans, for example, designed so that the
> blades can't be removed without breaking something in order to lubricate
> a motor in which the "permanent" lubrication is no longer effective.

nope, when people started demanding unreasonably large wages for work they 
do.

> Well, for one thing, it would be far less expensive to pay a techician
> to repair it than an engineer, or are you making the "politically
> correct, make everyone feel good to nonsensical extremes" mistake of
> calling technicians, and perhaps even help-desk employees, engineers?

now you are being pedantic.
Fine yes then, the COST of getting a techy to fault find/repair an XBOX, or 
PC motherboard FAR FAR outweighs the cost of buying a new one.

> Many companies don't want to pay reasonable wages, but they still want
> to raise the costs of their products and services to make larger
> profits.

Thats business for you, the employees have a choice if they don't like it, 
they can leave.

>  Many consumers end up paying more and making less, well,

because they can't be arsed to, its a culture thing, people are in herently 
lazy, why build a car, when you can buy one? it costs more to buy one.

> That's because the Clinton and Bush administrations

***YAWN***
Now this in turning into a political debate, and I'm sorry, thats not 
something I'm interested in, I'm interested in building synths, and thats 
what the list is for.

> You certainly appear to be a determined propaganda "artist!"... or
> else you're sadly misinformed.

and you seem to be keen for a flame war, not something I'm interested in 
either.
You are entitled to your views, but to slate myself and others for having a 
view different to your is wrong.

Surface mount is comming, you have a chocie, adapt or loose the ability to 
do a lot of stuff.
People feared computers woudl cost jobs, they did initially, now they 
generate jobs..
progress is always happening, no one can stop, you, me, or the 'mighty' US 
of A. its a part of life.
As I say, adapt or suffer.

Paul