It is for instance probably more efficient to produce tomatoes in the Philippines and import the few percent that get converted into paste back. This doesn\'t turn any country into a third-world country. Oversimplification is fun but hardly useful. Then again, I didn\'t follow an economics class in a third-world country; never got any further than a bachelors and masters in it at a reputable university.
I agree that consumerism without production makes for headaches. However, production doesn\'t have to mean manufacturing only. Services (and there are way better paid services than being cashier at Wal-mart, which we\'ll be hearing next) have transformed quite a few countries. Name a few you say? Well, the Nordics come to mind, Luxemburg, Ireland, heck: India even counts.
You can\'t really blame business from seeking better value and more efficiency. In fact you could consider it a compliment that it\'s cheaper to produce in China than in the US. Or would you rather have wages in the US that can compete? It would solve the \"consumer economy\" problem though...
Plus there are definite advantages to an interconnect world. Having tight economic links with a lot of countries reduces the risk of war for instance. It\'s one of the founding principles of the EU and heck - we haven\'t had war on our turf since its conception.
Anyway, when will you be buying your Japanese produced 5D II?
fair enough, you make some good points, listen things are complicated but anyway he did make some good points if you don\'t carry things too far, but yeah you have lots of valid points.
i will apparently be buying it never since it apparently will never be released, the desitined evolution hadnothign to do with what people though it did but it is all about how this is a new type of virtual product where it gets rumoured about for months and then teased about for months and then discussed and whined about for months and then awaited for for months and then never gets released and then the cycle starts anew.
Nov 10, 2008 at 04:44 PM
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