CD,
we have a mixer made in the US in 1942
Indeed, in my family was a GE refrigerator from that year, still operating (now as a spare) without a hitch all those years.
Thinking of that one, I purchased a GE refrigerator about 5 years ago and it can barely keep operating in the summer unless I turn the AC down to 72 degrees F. POS and I don't mean the price of silver. OTOH, I have no idea how many parts are of foreign manufacture. But obviously improvements in technology, productivity, outsourcing or what not, have not helped GE improve their refrigerators in 61 years time.
I have been through occupational obsolescence a few times, always saw it coming, always moved onward and upward. Never pleasant, even if it turns out well.
Still I, like Jay, do find it odd, even while I do it, that one can make a living or add to one's income by tapping a few keys.
Looking at that process with eyes from the past, it is both magical and incongruous.
But my suspicion, hinted at by Jay, is that this too will become obsolete. We have perhaps 5 or 10 years before this occupation, as we now know it, passes into the dustbins of history.
Best Regards,
Roebear |
