Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

Whether to their gain or loss I'll not judge but the Chinese are looking to "make" like the big kids around the world do.  China is a very large country with an awful lot of people and it is quite easily possible for them to tool up and take on the manufacture of just about anything.  The sweet part of the deal is for producers of so-called high-end appliances such as Miele is to farm out work to parts of the world where people are willing to work for far less than in the country the company calls its homebase.  However, none of the company's savings are intended to to be passed on to the consumer.

I do not see the particular advantage of outsourcing since the guy whose job I take away here to cut my cost of manufacture by sending work elsewhere is still going to need money if he can't adapt or transfer his skills.  Eventually tax money and other public funds are going to have to kick in to assist him over the hump now and then when things get nasty -- as they will. Somewhere a hospital will have to take him or his ill child in and someone will have to foot the bill if he can't.  This is not to say that he will be given benefit of particularly significant amounts of money or stellar provision of services but all will add up and certainly amount to a lot more when you multiply that one man by the many in the same situation.

Regards,

Venson