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ZCanadian · 04-17-2020, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by NecioVato

I'm hoping we learn - from a 'common sense' to also from the way we do business as a whole. To have such a high percentage of our goods made in one place just seems like a disaster waiting to happen. While I know outsourcing is the way of the world, I believe if we are smart, we will look to have multiple countries involved or we will look to make some of these goods here to not deal with shortages etc.

Here was a story in the Dallas Morning News which was interesting but definitely speaks volume of $ > Everything.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watc...7-guess-again/

I agree.

Problem is, until this came along the main concern was profit. And that pretty much means to consolidate production in certain areas. Especially areas where there is a lot of reasonably skilled, reliable, low wage labour.

The economic prosperity of most of the world comes from the fact we've enjoyed cheap goods from places like China. This is the other shoe dropping.

Best that this gives us a wake-up call now, and not in a war situation.

JARblue · 04-17-2020, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ZCanadian

Problem is, until this came along the main concern was profit.

Nothing has changed... decisions are still being made based on money. You can probably say that's the reason we're in this mess lol