Why is everything made in China? | beat & Epified
It was 50 years ago, it was important to see where the point was made.
Today, it makes no difference if your device is made in Japan or Thailand or Malaysia or China Of course, I prefer Made in Germany or Swiss Made for emotional reasons, but at similar price it matters most .
What matters is the brand and how much you paid each manufacturer and the competitive market works long and hard to ensure that all you get is as good as possible for the price The manufacturer must make the hard choices where to build or a contract for a plant so you do not have to.
As explained to me by a reader who's visited these factories throughout Southeast Asia, the displaced factories in China are usually duplicates almost exactly, with the same equipment and processes and standards, as used in Japan the only difference is the people watching the production line of local management is Japanese generally the most expensive and largest product profit margins are made in Japan and moved to China as time passes and margins thin profit.
This same player learned his talks with the Japanese leadership that the default rate in Chinese factories is always better than the Japanese factories He personally noted that Chinese workers were much more focused on their work in other countries, example, when walking in a Chinese factory, the staff of the rapid assembly line looked up from their work to see that Gweilo entered him into the floor of the factory once saw, they got a glimpse , they almost immediately turned their attention to their work in other factories outside China, he noticed workers in general have allowed their attention to wander for long periods of time.
Chinese workers aren t take lunch three hours, as I did when I had a real job and I got paid to socialize - I was not working an hourly job.
50 years ago the industrial goods manufactured in India were crude pieces of shit and Japanese generally dubious products The French, Swiss and Germans have the best precision products of the world in all possible categories Indeed, much more important issue that was something was easily seen by where something was done.
Indeed, each company makes their products in their own country built precision optics German companies in Germany and Chinese companies crud built primitive communist China Some companies could import goods from other countries made by companies in other countries, and the same countries of origin still for the quality or lack of it.
People have done things in their own country because of shipping and communications were primitive Even in the 1970 telephone calls abroad were too expensive, much less try to send things everywhere there was no digital cameras or e-mail There was no easy way to send anything electronically; it was put in a box and expect certainly could not save money by exporting your manufacturing operations or design, so when something was done was the same as that made, and so the products have been made to the standard of living in each country.
Today, that's all changed Communications are witnessing today not read this site and shipping is as easy as I can email a digital photo of a costume designer expensive in Hong Kong and a tailor copy in my hands next week, I can send an email CAD data incorporating firmware developed in India in Taiwan and have maps of complete circuits night return for product development and email layouts and all in China for the production volume, from a laptop on a wi-fi connection free bootlegged while sitting in my car parked in front of any building it is trivial to build a factory and run it when you want you can achieve better and more consistent work of a prison government-sponsored China instead of trying to manage a group of creative, free-thinking undisciplined Americans for volume manufacturing .
Manufacturing is about consistency, not creativity Once it's designed, it must be constructed as consistent as possible My cheap Casio watch, bought in a store warehouse 69, is a billion times more precise -1 5 seconds per month that makes the Rolex hand, which can range up to several hours my Casio varies within a month my Casio is not atomic; he runs this free although I do not want to buy products made by creative, I want done in a prison by robots is made exactly right every time I want art, I buy art artists When i want a tool like a camera, i just want a tool.
Of course, large companies today build and own their own factories in the countries of their choice, or at least use modern contract manufacturers that are set up in each country to do things to modern standards Even communist countries governments want a cup and let strangers do what they want to build competitive factories to employ local workers Its new plant from a private owner or company working without restrictions unions or safety regulations real world My dissenting brother showed us a TV program outlining the horrors of Chinese TV plants versus an established uS manufacturer Hah, the shiny new Chinese plant was loaded with happy, enslaved, dressy own workers and act to both meticulous work, and the old factory in the United States was far derri era time and loaded with sloppy whiners, malcontents just sitting around the Chinese factory had equipment and video-art testing techniques, and the US plant was totally outdated and based on his former Lavra attempt ls my brother Backfired convert me; it just highlighted how foreign production has eclipsed domestic production The creative minds and the minds of Americans and Europeans are too valuable to waste like drones in a dangerous factory.
The key question was always something that was not where it was done in the old days, during which was the same as that, but not today Who made, it is important, but where ISN t s done.
So if Nikon manufacturing engineers decide they can build a better product in Thailand, they do it in their own factory here in their own standards you or I try to guess the quality where he's done clouds the real question how it operates.
You're much better looking images taken by a camera or lens and not waste time searching the fact that said in the sticker.
US law is funny and based in the 1940s when shipping and communication was primitive Made applies to the final assembly point if I have all my subsets built in a prison in China and the final assembly or maybe just jumped the label here in the US, I can score MADE iN USA.
So ignore the old who are paranoid that something is done I personally always look the fact in the label and pay full price for anything marked MADE IN GERMANY or other first world countries, but it is Look just personal preference to images, not the stickers.
In fact, do something abroad often results in better products for one price payment of US wages, in compliance with environmental and safety regulations and any regulations crippling US FMLA that allow workers disengage with full pay for three months simply because they're stressed that ask your doctor to use the legal term a serious medical condition, no stress does nothing to make me a better camera.
Fortunately other countries with more progressive corrections programs are stepping to the plate to have forced labor in prisons skilled in places such as Liaoning Province in China assemble products we need Money is used to pay people stay at home is the money that the camera makers put back in the camera for you and me, you and I can do our part to help Chinese rehabilitate their criminal population honest citizens by voting with our dollars here in the United States, the government subsidizes the dissidents to teach history in our universities; in other countries, they're sent to prison for making shoes, clothes, cameras, power tools and bags for the rest of the world.
Take this article as you I'm not just trying to clarify the language in the plays that people like me have personal problems with where things are made and always prefer to pay a high premium for MADE IN GERMANY or SWISS MADE, but quality for a given price is better when you ignore the fact the label.
Made in China, Actually, porcelain.