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

[R. D. Davis]

Quothe Paul Maddox, from writings of Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:37:50AM +0100:
> >The fact that it is harder or impossible to repair is a win-win for
> >manufacturers...
> 
> I'm sorry, but thats rubbish. This has NOTHING to do with SMD!

Yes it does, and such manufacturers want people to believe the sort of
propaganda that you're propagating.

> This started happening a LONG time ago, when parts became cheaper than 
> labour.

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.

> For example the IBM PS2, ths cost of a new motherboard was much much less 
> than the cost of an engineer spending 4 hours trying to find a fault (SMD 
> or not).

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?

> The rising cost of labour has forced people to find ways to reduce their 
> cost and cost of manufacture.

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.  Many consumers end up paying more and making less, well,
aside from the ever increasing numbers of people in areas near the
cancerously expanding Wash. DC area, who are making big bucks at the
expense of the taxpayers, like people working for various government
agencies, defense contractors, lobbying firms, companies affiliated
with the unpatriotic homeland security program (did you know Bush has
hired former high-ranking Soviet KGB officials as architects of that
program, one of whom admits that it's to control, and spy on, the
citizens, not to combat terrorism?), and all of the other tax-payer
rip offs.

> Why do you think so much stuff is made in the east now? because labour is 
> cheap compared to the west.

That's because the Clinton and Bush administrations have been led by
corrupt weasels who decided to screw not only the U.S. citizens and
many smaller manufacturing companies in the U.S., who can no longer
afford to compete, but people living in many other nations as well, so
that certain large multinational corporations can obtain cheap labor.
Rememember how Clinton & Co. took bribes from China?  Do you think
Bush is any different?  He just didn't get caught yet.  Also certain
politically well-connected CEOs and shareholders of large multiational
corporations are increase their profits at the expense of what
basically amounts to Chinese slave labor.  

Just wait until we lose all of our manufacturing capabilties, lose
most of our farmland to "developers" while importing more produce,
etc., then end up in some sort of cold-war with the companies where
most of the manufacturing and farming will take place, but our
short-sighted politicians don't care about that... the idiots
apparently think that they'll be able to conquer the world with the
U.S. military by then, and will be running an empire led by a
dictator.

Similarly, that cheap labor is causing other problems as well.  Take
cheap imported foreign labor in the computer field and all of the
outsourcing to China, Russia, India, etc., for example... it's all a
result of greed.  A couple of weeks ago, I talked with someone who
worked as a physical therapist who lost her job because of cheap
labor.  Just wait until the problem affects you.  Perhaps you just
haven't had any first hand knowledge of the problem or haven't been
paying much attention to the newscasts that are telling the truth
about such matters, such as the Lou Dobbs newscasts, for example.

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

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