mac davis wrote:

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:06:27 GMT, Brian Henderson
wrote:

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:09:52 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

Uh, you missed their taking over the entire consumer electronics
industry.

Because the Japanese could make a better product for less money, why
shouldn't they take over the industry? They earned it!

The question you should be asking is why the U.S. completely wasted
their superiority.

I watched the transition in the quality of Japanese steel.. from tin can
quality to better than ours (US)..
One of the reasons is that the Japanese government underwrites research
and renovation..


That and/or the fact that Japanese industry can do updates and renovations

Back maybe 10 or 15 years, I watched a documentary on the steel industry
and they were pointing out that Japan was tearing down it's oldest steel
mill and rebuilding it to be better and efficient... and that the newest
steel mill in the US was almost 100 years old...

One of the reasons for that is the significant resistance of organized
labor to any changes in plant configuration that might automate something
and take away a job. They were successful for a while, but that eventually
caught up to both the steel and auto industries. I believe Leon posted a
while back about the amount in a new GM car that goes to pay the health
insurance for retired workers.

Same thing happened to our auto industry... the Japanese did their
homework and found out what the American people wanted and made it..


mac

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