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To: energyplay who wrote (22880)	9/22/2007 3:08:11 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217653

What TJ meant? It is the rollover strategy. You get a pool of trained people and they do stuff. Once the locals start getting the hang of it, you give them more sophisticated (and more profitable) stuff for them to do. Thus rolling it over to low cost countries what they've been learning by doing, moves from China to Vietnam. Thus cheap stuff will never been good quality. Because it started in Japan 45 years ago and is being kept rolling over, form one poor country to another To avoid that the buyer has to learn how to buy. The branded stuff will always be more expensive. They go to the place and say this back pack of winter jacket must be manufactured here. The Okrika ones will be made in Vietnam. I do this, I buy an expensive pair of jeans, and that knowledge allows me to buy another jeans that is not as good but is not Okrika. Do the same thing with shirts. (All of that is bought in Dubai upscale shopping malls, on sale after the Europeans have provided the profits for the shops and I get 75% discount on branded stuff. In Germany I used to buy end of summer and end of winter stuff, to bring to Nigeria. South is opposite season of the year…. In the US one can do the same: buy expensive stuff and then choose the non-branded because then you know what a good quality product is. Same with cars, I rent them and only buy the car I liked when I rented. **Okrika: Nigerian word for bad quality stuff. Refers to a southern Nigerian city where second hand stuff imported form Europe is sold. Two cities in Belgium are entrepot where they knock down stuff in huge yards to export to poor countries where they need spares and such. This is the true meaning of recycling. And this is the stuff the World Bank guys don't learn in the libraries where they do research.

To: energyplay who wrote (22880)	9/22/2007 5:25:04 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217653

china based manufacturer making millions of one component, for china use, and millions more, for global use, feeding the component into chain that aggregates tens, hundreds, thousands of other components into final products, surviving by being the smartest and brightest and most productive, drawing on wellspring of natural getup and go passed down a few thousand years recently stifled by a bad system introduced from the west known as communism, now reforming, once in 600 year sort, to return to natural and traditional ways, competing against others like it in the next block, next city, next province, within one large and diverse continental economy, nourished by savings, infused with talents, enhanced by international secret sauce, on the one hand ... on the other hand, a lone supplier of some thing, anything, in vietnam, laos, thailand, sharpened by no competition, backed by no infrastructure, supported by no savings, and led by no get up and go ? only people like CB Ilaine can possibly believe that Ecuador (no get up and go) and Vietnam (no scale) and India (no savings) can substitute for China, and for that, she will be made fun of, for entertainment, as we journey towards teotwawki.