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To: TobagoJack who wrote (1985)11/13/2005 6:31:47 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 217823
 
Of chocolate and factories: Factories have to be located where the people who's going to consume the produce is. It is non sense to cart materials to one country or region, manufacture there and the distribute.

Because industrial revolution started in Europe and they were the first to develop the know how, stuff had to be shipped there, made and the sold back.

Countries produced raw materials and bought the final products. Now what we have is: a country or region has the competitiveness (meaning the right labor force) to make things and the stuff has to be shipped there and the shipped back. We are back to square one.

Which brings us back to Chocolate factory country: Cocoa and other food inputs were shipped to a country developed the know how in producing food. The circumstances (like lots of babies=lots of baby food and baby formula. Lots of kids=lots of confectioneries) favored this country. Now circumstances changed (the babies and the kids are somewhere else in the world.

Chocolate factory country is being hollowed up. And this hollowing up is that points to a bleak future for the whole Europe.

Tell the chocolate country: Develop more tourism. It is the only thing that will remain there.
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