Companies brace for end of cheap "made-in-China" era
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this will never happen
Finally toys I can chew on without the danger of getting lead poisoning.
They'll move operations to another country with cheap peasant labor.
The production will all probably shift to India.
[QUOTE=DogGunn;23295545]Finally. Shit that will cost the buyer about 10x more.[/QUOTE]
Finally, shit that costs 20x more.
Try and one up me? I'll END YOU
Cheap labour will most likely shift to the next developing country, like India.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;23296891]Finally, shit that costs 20x more.
Try and one up me? I'll END YOU[/QUOTE]
I had something intelligent to say until I saw your avatar. Now i have forgot
[QUOTE=Bloodshed16;23224600]Awesome. I can stop frowning when I read "made in China" then realize it broke while I was reading it.[/QUOTE]
More like: You will pay more for your already expensive gadgets and computer parts because almost everything is produced cheaply, exploiting poor people. When they can't do that anymore, they will raise the prices.
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[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;23295148]all thats happening is that China is moving up in the world. Then we will go to the next cheap country until the get more money and evolve like china, and then another and another, until we can make it fully automated. the quality of the goods won't change. I asked my teacher what would happen when China gets enough money to go up in the chain, and thats what he said[/QUOTE]
Make what fully automated? Move from poor country to poor country, only staying as long as its developed? If there really was some miracle and all those poor countries would get out of this vicious circle, at some point there would be no poor enough countries anymore, so where do you move then, fully automated?
Why couldn't they have waited until robots do their work for free? :saddowns:
About time we stopped building the economy of out greatest future rival. We've basically outsourced our middle class with making our rubbish there. Enough is enough.
Though if we must outsource, it should be to India. Democratic, friendlier and they won't copy your patented stuff which took millions of dollars to develope as soon as your back is halfway turned.
Msi, DFI, Biostar, Gigabyte, Foxconn and Asus or infact all motherboard companies can't suddenly move from taiwan.
Oh well we got evga, but they only do rip of nf200 shit. I whouldn't worry to much about china.
[QUOTE=Valon Kyre;23224654]I want to see more made in USA, if it's built there it's bound to be built tough as nails.[/QUOTE]
Probably not. Just look at some of our car companies.
Or that crappy-ass stove I had. The computer kept breaking(although the first time was when the thing was doused with hot saltwater, the result of a cranky water softener) so you couldn't use the oven and oven's temperature settings were inaccurate when it did work. We tossed it out eventually and got a Samsung(better in every way. Even looks nicer).
It used to be built as tough as nails. Not any more.
[QUOTE=kdabr;23293057]Just because they are brown and have slanty eyes doesn't mean that they are cheap labor you moron. Their labor is actually more expensive (and better quality) than american labor[/QUOTE]
Japanese aren't brown.
[QUOTE=rsa1988;23290982]Wow 65 cents instead of 55 cents ohh wow I can't certainly pay that much out of my around 80 dollar checking account. Or in other words people will be bitching that prices go up a few cents to about 10 dollars. I hope quality goes up as well.[/QUOTE]
10 cents sort of makes a difference when you order stuff by the number of shipping containers
Million prints with 10 cents saved per book means you pay $100,000 less
Prices won't go up. But if they do, I can assure you that they won't go by a few cents, they'll go by a few dollars.
I'd like to say that production will finally return to the west but they'll probably just put production in india or something.
My vote's on Bangladesh.
[QUOTE=Brage Nyman;23300043]Msi, DFI, Biostar, Gigabyte, Foxconn and Asus or infact all motherboard companies can't suddenly move from taiwan.[/QUOTE]
Taiwan is not the same as China.
[QUOTE=cup-a-soup;23305617]Taiwan is not the same as China.[/QUOTE]
It's the Republic of China.
Sick.
[QUOTE=rsa1988;23290982]Wow 65 cents instead of 55 cents ohh wow I can't certainly pay that much out of my around 80 dollar checking account. Or in other words people will be bitching that prices go up a few cents to about 10 dollars. I hope quality goes up as well.[/QUOTE]
Though I'd imagine the lower transportation costs would even it out
Maybe after some time America can give back some of those jobs to actual Americans.
Good.
Now at least I don't have to feel ashamed that everything I buy that's plastic comes out of soul-crushing labor.
But now where will the western nations' children get their dosage of heavy metals?
Eh....maybe now we can produce our own stuff.
[QUOTE=Swilly;23321582]Eh....maybe now we can produce our own stuff.[/QUOTE]
India will probably take China's place.
This is a natural occuring phenomenon.
Low Salary>They demand more and get it>Companies getting less profits>They move out of country>Amount of jobs fall>More competition>Salaries fall