Tapsearch Com EditorWhat about ethics in manufacturing
The headlines report - Manufacturing has a new face , locally, nationwide and globally- or does it? And is there ethics in manufacturing and the so called gross national product ?
An economic professor once told me that there is no such thing as a good or bad economics. Economics is just a matter of measurements of processes and not really capable of reporting what is a good or bad economy relating to what is really good for a society.
Today, we see a flood of high tech products coming to market just for their own sake and not necessarily as something a society needs or where priorities of life and need call for them. Do we really need all this stuff or is it just put a way to create money on money. Is it just a way for investors to find ways to invest rather than provide real things for a good life.
Top newspapers in our state, have written many articles over the years about the creation of a new high tech region with new high end manufacturing . However, about two decades ago , our region led the way in high tech development which was nullified by so called free trade that made any kind of production portable for the sake of cheaper labor. Research an development was there but in the end the production phase in the process went outside the USA. Production itself was caught in the mix of the cost of labor. When you find cheap enough labor you need less of high tech manufacturing. The same applys to any new development. It is only a matter of time when the cheaper cost of labor runs the show. The value of labor and workers drop further and further flowing to the lowest levels down to wage slave and even child labor.
Manufacturing in American lost the free trade war. After World War 2, America enjoyed an industrial economic model that provided masses of workers a way to a better life. The shop foremen were able to take the young off the streets and teach them a skill that provided enough money to get married, raise a large family, buy a home , help their children in getting a higher education and then retiring with a pension or enough money to be independent for the rest of their lives. Most of the industrial jobs provided products that were needed in the process and were not just devices that are created to just keep investments flowing through financial manipulations .
Now we have news about job opportunities that will create high tech manufacturing jobs. They tell us that an estimated 60,000 advanced manufacturing jobs will be available in our state over the next decade as if they found a new way around all the industrial jobs that were lost since the late 1980s due to free trade and portable production. Compare a fractional 60,000 jobs to the millions of jobs that were lost. Even the 60,000 so called advanced manufacturing jobs will be subject to the same free trade game where there are no rules.
I worked at several factories while going to college and made the equivalent of about $15 to $20 an hour. At one job it was even much more than that. If these jobs were available today, there would be thousands standing in line to applying for them including college graduates who would seek them as an end rather than just a means to an end.
I was a setup man for three assembly lines for home oil furnaces at a very young age. When the orders slowed down the assembly lines were reduced or shut down for awhile.
The workers were not laid off. They were transferred to departments that made the parts which created a vast inventory that grew in value. There was no need for just in time manufacturing , everything was there ready to go at any time. They say this kind of manufacturing and this economic model was too much of an overhead. It was to a certain degree depending how much the personal tax grew on inventory, but in itself it was much better for all of society . Many government contractors still have to maintain good inventory because the quality of parts are for critical use in even do or die situations.
Later in life, I became a trouble shooter supplyer for one of the last industrial micro computer manufacturers. I was a trouble shooter supplyer because just in time manufacturing came and in process manufacturing evolved from overseas where a 3 percent failure rate was acceptable in the making of most components. In the end , it all failed because Americans did not know how to compromise their manufacturing integrity.
Yes there was once ethics in manufacturing and until be find a way back home to the successful economic models of the past, nothing will really work and all of society is affected by the terrible lost of all these monetary values and other values.
The free traders globalists will not win because everything will be sorted out and Americans and other peope of good will in the world are now finding out what they really do not need to live a good life.
Real World News and and Ray Tapajna Chronicles
An economic professor once told me that there is no such thing as a good or bad economics. Economics is just a matter of measurements of processes and not really capable of reporting what is a good or bad economy relating to what is really good for a society.
Today, we see a flood of high tech products coming to market just for their own sake and not necessarily as something a society needs or where priorities of life and need call for them. Do we really need all this stuff or is it just put a way to create money on money. Is it just a way for investors to find ways to invest rather than provide real things for a good life.
Top newspapers in our state, have written many articles over the years about the creation of a new high tech region with new high end manufacturing . However, about two decades ago , our region led the way in high tech development which was nullified by so called free trade that made any kind of production portable for the sake of cheaper labor. Research an development was there but in the end the production phase in the process went outside the USA. Production itself was caught in the mix of the cost of labor. When you find cheap enough labor you need less of high tech manufacturing. The same applys to any new development. It is only a matter of time when the cheaper cost of labor runs the show. The value of labor and workers drop further and further flowing to the lowest levels down to wage slave and even child labor.
Manufacturing in American lost the free trade war. After World War 2, America enjoyed an industrial economic model that provided masses of workers a way to a better life. The shop foremen were able to take the young off the streets and teach them a skill that provided enough money to get married, raise a large family, buy a home , help their children in getting a higher education and then retiring with a pension or enough money to be independent for the rest of their lives. Most of the industrial jobs provided products that were needed in the process and were not just devices that are created to just keep investments flowing through financial manipulations .
Now we have news about job opportunities that will create high tech manufacturing jobs. They tell us that an estimated 60,000 advanced manufacturing jobs will be available in our state over the next decade as if they found a new way around all the industrial jobs that were lost since the late 1980s due to free trade and portable production. Compare a fractional 60,000 jobs to the millions of jobs that were lost. Even the 60,000 so called advanced manufacturing jobs will be subject to the same free trade game where there are no rules.
I worked at several factories while going to college and made the equivalent of about $15 to $20 an hour. At one job it was even much more than that. If these jobs were available today, there would be thousands standing in line to applying for them including college graduates who would seek them as an end rather than just a means to an end.
I was a setup man for three assembly lines for home oil furnaces at a very young age. When the orders slowed down the assembly lines were reduced or shut down for awhile.
The workers were not laid off. They were transferred to departments that made the parts which created a vast inventory that grew in value. There was no need for just in time manufacturing , everything was there ready to go at any time. They say this kind of manufacturing and this economic model was too much of an overhead. It was to a certain degree depending how much the personal tax grew on inventory, but in itself it was much better for all of society . Many government contractors still have to maintain good inventory because the quality of parts are for critical use in even do or die situations.
Later in life, I became a trouble shooter supplyer for one of the last industrial micro computer manufacturers. I was a trouble shooter supplyer because just in time manufacturing came and in process manufacturing evolved from overseas where a 3 percent failure rate was acceptable in the making of most components. In the end , it all failed because Americans did not know how to compromise their manufacturing integrity.
Yes there was once ethics in manufacturing and until be find a way back home to the successful economic models of the past, nothing will really work and all of society is affected by the terrible lost of all these monetary values and other values.
The free traders globalists will not win because everything will be sorted out and Americans and other peope of good will in the world are now finding out what they really do not need to live a good life.
Real World News and and Ray Tapajna Chronicles
Ethics Box
Stories behind News in Global Economic Arena
The Rationale Quest
The World's News
Tapsearch explores untold stories
Ray Tapajna Chronicles,
Bizarre Politics etc sites
See review of Pope Benedict's economic encyclical
Ethics Box
Stories behind News in Global Economic Arena
The Rationale Quest
The World's News
Tapsearch explores untold stories
See dark side of energy saving light bulbs and the darker stories behind it
Energy Saving Light bulbs cause UV radiation
We will continue writing about this lack of ethics in manufacturing example - search under dark side dirty energy saving light bulbs on our Tapsearch Com sites and on our blogs here at Orble