If hardware is cheap, it's because it's being made in Thailand, like my Canon
printer, or China, like my Umax scanner, by workers making about $1 per day.
There is no such thing a cheap material, imho. Only cheap labour to extract,
process and manufacture it (and still allow the coporation to make a healthy
profit).
regards,
frank
Bruce Dayton wrote:
> One thing to keep in mind here is back when things were made with such high
> quality, the cost of labor versus materials was different. Labor was quite
> cheap and materials were more expensive. The opposite is true now. I
> recall in the computer industry when a floppy disk drive cost $150 dollars
> and labor rates to repair and align heads was $25/hours. Now a new drive
> costs $10 and labor is $100/hr. That type of problem drives us towards a
> throw away mentality. The cost of disposal hasn't been noticed yet. I
> believe that corporations are looking mostly at cost and competition when
> they build and design products.
> --
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist
fears it is true." -J. Robert
Oppenheimer
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