Pretty much every thread besides where to get the best pizza threads have no impact on my life or others here .
The US can’t even bring all the work back to the US because we don’t have the manpower. I was just on the phone with a friend at my prior company and he said they can’t find anyone to apply and work there. He wants to retire, about 58 with plenty of assets, but it will take a while to replace him. He working from Naples, Fl from his NJ JOB. They kept laying off people and now they are short of people. Now the company is transferring the work to low cost countries like Singapore and starting to think about closing the San Antonio operation they open 10 years ago that they moved from NJ.
If the companies paid more, they'd have more people interested. But your point is still valid...there are not enough workers in certain sectors of the economy already. Even just the idea of paying more is playing musical chairs...there's only so many people who are qualified for a certain job. The idea of bringing back jobs also doesn't make sense unless companies, shareholders, and consumers are willing to pay the higher labor costs. Certain types of work that are deemed critical to the functioning of the country should definitely be brought back, but that is a national security issue and we should just understand that we will incur higher costs for doing so.
It funny they moved the NJ jobs to San Antonio Tx about 10 years ago and got their tax credit and now they moving a lot of jobs off shore, not China, for lower cost. Unemployment going to hit 3% because all us boomers want to retire. Actually, it’s great period for 25-45 years old since lay offs will be substantially lower than when I worked and should be plenty of opportunities for their entire career.
The long-running efforts to reduce OpEx to appease the shareholders and investors is driving every major company to push jobs offshore. And yes, not China, but I see a lot of Costa Rica, Spain, Ireland, Czech Republic, Philippines for shared service centers for Finance and IT jobs.
The question is how? It’s not 1960. Some big US companies just can’t live without China.
It's Italy dude, they're no threat. Hell, their national salute is raising both arms in the air in surrender. My Grandfather taught me that one.
by the time the cities bidding for the olympics shook out, the only other country with an official bid was Kazakhstan. no one wants to spend big $ on hosting the olympics anymore, especially the winter olympics.
Those countries I mentioned already have the infrastructure to host the games. They need to stop the bidding out of the games and go to a rotation of countries/regions that want it. Otherwise just end the Olympics and make the World Championships (where ever held that year) for each sport the "Olympics" every 4 years if needed. No one cares about opening and closing ceremonies anymore.
Good list but Utah still seems risky. How much snow in Utah this year? My friends in SLC said Park City had practically nothing until a week or so ago. Also Solden Austria hosts the initial FIS races every October. Most years the Alps are no issue. This was a great year for snow there.
They "persuaded" the politicians. They, especially the first Bush and Clinton, sold us out.
You can't make countries host if they don't want it in a particular cycle...or 4 cycles... the US could want it one year and then not again for several cycles... what do you do then? It's not just about having the appropriate venues... you have thousands of visitors and a ton of media logistics to set up.
Then go to what I proposed of using the World Championships every 4 years as the Olympics. The World's are hosted every year for every sport. No need to build or plan for thousands of visitors (especially when you can't travel anyway due to COVID...who knows for how long). The concept of a single location is outdated when you see how far some of the events are anyway.
Great post on snow in Utah. I appreciate the insights. I think we all just want an Olympics in a “real” venue / with mostly real snow.
Is there anything that isn't made-in-China anymore? The establishment (both sides of the aisle), by refusing to use tariffs with teeth, have made it so American manufacturing can't compete anymore.
Its also, the colleges and businesses. That Harvard chemist that was busted was a top chemist in the world, and there are legion more just like him. True about both parties collaborating but one of them really really like their system and would like to emulate it in US. They've already been doing epic censoring/defaming that's a massive u-turn in US history.
iPhones would cost 50% more once everything is made here... robots would be doing much of it. But it will take awhile. Nokia phones were made in Finland.. they didn't cost more because of that. China is the problem. Other western nations would be much more acceptable. Finland is not working to destroy democracy as we know it.
Actually one side did lay the tariffs and they were working
You are 100% correct. If people would try doing something called research, onnnn, oh I don't know, the computer, they could find plenty that is made here. ALSO, maybe look at labels when they go into a store. I do it all the time, not always easy to find and sometimes I have to suck it up and deal with it and by china crap, but I do have some success. I also order things online that are made here.
the market as a whole has spoken...they'd rather have cheap crap that has a lower initial price tag than pay more for something that will last longer.
Free market for United States companies manufacturing inside the United States. Protectionist regarding foreign companies and imports. Right now there's nothing "free" about our free market. Companies have endless restrictions and regulations when they manufacture inside the United States and face almost no penalties when they manufacture outside of the United States (using what amounts to slave labor).
Still just boils down to... do we want cheap **** or not? Also... we'll never be able to compete against low cost mfg countries. Once that ship has sailed, we need to move on to the next thing. Otherwise it's a race to the bottom... and their bottom is much lower than ours. Goal should be to innovate at home, be first mover in selling the goods, and once the market matures and other countries start to catch up... move on to the next innovation. That, and tax the multinationals appropriately to discourage them from offshoring their profits and IP.
