mike wilson wrote: > Not necessarily. On the route of this plethora of "upgrades" > the company finds that it has to relocate its manufacturing > (which it has already removed most of the human element from) > to outer Mongolia or some other place where labour is cheap > and unprotected, in order to remain "competitive". Other > companies follow suit. Including your own. Suddenly! the > next "upgrade" is only �50 but you have no job to pay for it......
The truth of the matter is that a vast bulk of the buying population couldn't give a stuff about how and where it was made, the impact of the planet both short and long term, as long as it comes at the right price. Until the day misfortune knocks on their own door. I'm sure that folk here would be greatly interested in how the goods arrived at the shops, but buying figures suggest that the public at large don't care. We have (had) a car manufacturing industry that went to the wall and how many of the big companies in the UK are UK owned? In the meantime they will have their upgraded camera and care not. Sad but true. Malcolm
