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I'm in the wrong biz...Anyone who thinks hunting boots are expensive haven’t seen the credit card bill when their wife buys a pair of of Jimmy Choo boots
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I'm in the wrong biz...Anyone who thinks hunting boots are expensive haven’t seen the credit card bill when their wife buys a pair of of Jimmy Choo boots
I've had a number of experiences like this; on a forum, at a bar, on a ski lift and some person is explaining to me how to build a metal tube that can propel a tiny piece of lead multiple times faster than the speed of sound and hit a target at a 1,000 plus yards. They can tell me how gravity, wind, altitude, humidity, etc all factor in and can explain why. They can tell me how/why the grooves in that metal tube and the length of the lead glob are important.Aspiring to be your best is great and if an education brings your best once again great.
For way too many an education is beyond their abilities. Those kids need a good “factory job”. A good tradesman, hell an average tradesman is a godsend these days. We need more efforts put towards promotion of both manufacturing and trades.
For way too many an education is beyond their abilities. Those kids need a good “factory job”. A good tradesman, hell an average tradesman is a godsend these days. We need more efforts put towards promotion of both manufacturing and trades.
Clearly the status quo is broken.
My position is that we need to invest in Americans and retool the way we teach our citizens.
I think other countries have figured that part out and that's why we are losing.
You and me bothI'm in the wrong biz...
Yes, but of course the investment reaps dividends that are unrivaled...Anyone who thinks hunting boots are expensive haven’t seen the credit card bill when their wife buys a pair of of Jimmy Choo boots
'Factory Job' is going to (in a ton of cases, already does) mean something different than working the line installing part A into part B. Manufacturing, where it's feasible in the US, is already changing to be more akin to 'screen time' than it is to manual labor. I don't believe that part of the education puzzle is being adequately addressed.
The technological savvy of the average American is fairly high whether they know it (or admit it) or not just to participate in society. It needs to get much better as automation, robotics, etc continue to evolve and become the norm rather than the exception, and I hope that's a genuine focus of trade school curriculums/co-ops, etc.
An illustrative example here that I was involved with for a year or so: https://www.thesmartfactory.io/home#
Hank I promise not to derail your thread any further, but I wanted to add to this post.Anyone who thinks hunting boots are expensive haven’t seen the credit card bill when their wife buys a pair of of Jimmy Choo boots
Believe me, I know how lucky I am. And if I ever even….possibly forget it momentarily. I am sure I will be reminded very quickly. If not by my wife than by one of her “she team members”Hank I promise not to derail your thread any further, but I wanted to add to this post.
When you buy a new rifle, you will sometimes buy new ammo to go with it, perhaps even a new scope, perhaps a sling, -----my point is when your wife buys those Jimmy Choo boots you realize she will need a new purse to match the boots and more important than that, she does all of this to look good, for you!
Hank, kinda like when Rio wants/needs a new collar
Hafta take your word on that one, Harley. Sounds like Europe concurs.Yes, but of course the investment reaps dividends that are unrivaled...
The new pup re-christened em Jimmy Chew...Hafta take your word on that one, Harley. Sounds like Europe concurs.
Excellent question. Based on a cursory knowledge of REI's operations (I've never done work for them but friends have), and ignoring some of the more trivial components of the transaction - it's safe to say that when you actually receive the boots, you (your money, really) will have interacted (with either labor, backoffice or transportation) from people in ~5 countries:I'm ordering some new Lowas from a Alb. gal @ REI and sending the Caminos to MA to be shipped to Germany & back.
? for myself,how many jobs did I just interact with involving a US worker.
They’d have an even bigger problem. China’s stability relies on economic growth, in order to maintain that, they need to sell their stuff. We buy a whole lot of that stuff.But if China ever... stop selling to us all of a sudden, we’d really have problems.