Good point Mike. Was that the Japanese Model or was it the Deming Model that America rejected and so he took it to Japan? Their stronger culture accepted the robotics but still took care of their citizens put out of work by it.
Today, the same thing has happened with the IM System's programs of John Warfield that are being used in China at the moment but in America they are a college department at George Mason University. That's what America does with innovation. Give it a department in an academic institution and forget it. They explored that model in the early 20th century with culture. Wall Street sold the factories for rare medals used in computers to China. Then businessmen say, "government didn't stop me, if it was wrong you should have stopped me!" but they spend billions lobbying to keep from being stopped. The system doesn't work. It's immoral, it's brutal, it's not a society it's a brothel in the middle of a piracy. Store those good creative things in the education institution and the churches. America now trains for education, churches and the immoral market. Keith, Ed and Harry are asking the wrong questions and so their answers don't work. But we are just an internet list. The guys from MIT, Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, etc. have all but forgotten the meaning of citizenship. Citizens means we are all connected. When a nation has poverty and you are benefitting it means you are white trash. No one remembers that. My family is Reynolds and they were RJR Tobacco. Distant family but when tobacco was popular, my grandmother visited the company on a tour. She made an offhand comment about being family. The demeaned her as someone wanting a share of their money. She glowered at them and turned and walked away. But she told us the story and said that she wasn't asking, just stating facts. When tobacco went down we simply thought that a stupid world view had come full circle and now they were paying the price for it. Of course when the system crashes they will blame the least powerful group in the privileged. Like Hitler created full employment. He got rid of a very talented small group that were powerless to fight him. And he created full employment with the rest. But the real problem was Europe's treaty that created a deep seated hatred in the German people for everyone else and the German people's inner psychology that made them need a scapegoat to keep them from facing their own demons and taming them. What is rarely said is that Hitler would have been the Andrew Jackson of Germany if he hadn't have gone to war. He would have killed all those Jews and Europe would have looked at them as they are treating the Gypsies today. Just as Andrew Jackson murdered the prosperous Indian people and got away with it. Hitler would have gotten away with genocide and it might well have spread given the prejudice of Europe, if he hadn't declared war. I see plenty of Anti-Semitism today and I've walked down the street with opera singers from Europe who spit on synagogues as the pass them. The truth is that we are all connected and everyone must be taken care of, from the smallest to the greatest of life. But we can't even do that with citizens, the life in soil that makes life possible doesn't have a chance. We don't even take care of our own citizens in this system. REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Re: Both schools are wrong Keith wrote: > Find me a new consumer product that's highly desirable by the rich, > very expensive -- say, equivalent to what the car was in the > 1910s/20s -- but capable of repeated phases of mass production until > it reaches down to everybody in due course. I'm not sure you thought here is the right one, Keith. In Made in America [1], the authors point out (1989) that US manufacturers have done as you describe, introducing a New Thing that only the rich (or industrial users) can afford. All-cast-iron, gold plated with hand-fitted parts, so to speak. Once the carriage trade market is saturated, they introduce the Elite model, then the Pop model, then the Consumer model followed eventually by the Commodity model for the lowest consumer base. But way back at the intro of VCRs, the Japanese used a different biz model. Engineer for production. Make a consumer model and flood the world with it. Because they have a million units in use (rather than a few thousand) they get statistical quality control, feedback on where the design or engineering failed. They fix that for the next run. At the end of a year or a few years, the US producer is just getting tooled up for production engineering for the mass-production version. But the Japanese already have the expertise, the technology, the machinery and the data on what does and does not work in a consumer product. They own the market and can recover any losses sustained back when their first mass release had, perhaps, a large number of returns, call-backs, plant design failures or whatever. So maybe we won't ever see any new FatCat models of anything anymore. Thirty years on, Apples seems to have adopted the Japanese model, releasing the iPhone, not for the rich but for the merely reasonably well-off, in vast quantities. - Mike [1] Made in America: the MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity, Michael Dertouzos, Richard Lester, Robert Solow, et al., MIT Press, 1989 -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
