01-12-2017, 09:25 PM
(01-10-2017, 11:50 AM)SomeGuy Wrote:Quote:I've never been a fan of the "everything not mandatory is forbidden" school of policy. Dress shirts are not mandatory where I work, but most of the men wear
I never said anything about "forbidden". Wear what you can afford. If the cost of supporting American industry as opposed to groups of small children in SE Asia is that you decide to start wearing polo shirts, I'm not going to lose sleep over it.
Ah yes, as long as the pain doesn't hurt you, it's fine.
The truth is, what would happen is that people would substitute less comfortable poly/cotton blends for cotton, since those shirts last ten times as long. And since they last ten times as long, there would be a lot less consumption, so virtually no jobs would be created in making them. Demand for cotton would plummet too, hurting that industry as well.
Regaining manufacturing by going forward, such as through automation, makes sense; it may even be a reasonable source of knowledge worker jobs, such as the engineering jobs that the Japanese and Germans have. Going backwards to try to regain low end assembly jobs is foolish and likely counterproductive in most cases, as it certainly would be in this case.
Quote:Quote:You'll have to explain Air Jordans, whatever they are.
Ludicrously expensive high-top sneakers popular starting in the 80s?
Checking them out, they appear to have applied expensive running shoe technology to the sneaker market, allowing them to charge more. Their advertising only supplemented a real technological edge.