Awl--
Yeah, yeah, we all know about china'n'shit, but here's a little inside factoid from a machining compadre of mine. Ackshooly, he's a lamp-maker and architectural sheetmetal-ist, very high-end, very skilled. In Brooklyn, NY. Who needs some work, btw... :) Inyway, he does real spensive stuff, for the Connecticut and Manhattan Rich, you know, $5,000 stainless steel one-off chairs'n'shit, bronze 10 ft doors, ekc. You know, some asshole's wife in CT gets a creative urge during her long arduous day of doin absolutely nuthin, sketches out her own furniture'n'shit, which then of course MUST be realized. My buddy then realizes sed creative drivel for these ultra-effluent assholes.
But, he says some of his business comes from a guy who will want a replica of some item, say, a Frank Lloyd Wright chair or table or sump'n, made
*absolutely perfectly*, for, well, the future Chinese Insertion. So ahm doin my Li'l (Gr)asshopper Thing: O Sensei, O why does shit have to be so perfect, iffin it's just goin to fuknChina?? Sensei: Cuz, (gr)asshopper, iffin I put one inadvertant minor *scratch* on the chair, the repro's from China will then contain sed scratch! Goddamm....Thought that was a might inneresting, in that
- when they say "copy", they ain't foolin,
- China is *that* good, and
- China don't even have to outright steal our shit.... They just commission someone to have it made and shipped right on over. Ain't no surreptitiousness or skullduggery bout it. Hey, here's X dollars--help us shove it in. My buddy don't like what he does, but shit, he's gotta eat, and pay rent/salaries.
There is, apparently, no escape.
But have no fear--if China/India don't shove it in, yer own fav domestic corporations/politicians already have their zippers down, and will step right up, if not in fact beat China to the Insertion. The Johnny-come-lately's will just have pick different orifices, as the choice ones get impacted.
But shit does roll down hill, fortunately: There's always *Africa* left, for *everyone* to f*ck, by way of stealing her resources, since nobody over there has any money to buy shit with.
You know ahm off from work, right?? :) Torn deltoid, which fortunately (unfortunately) no longer hampers my typing. :) :) Cornea's growin back just fine. :)