Transitional Generation
I remember when I didn't have to change out the hardware of a focking toilet after a year of use. When did that happen? Also a DVD player that cost 500 should last longer that it's price in hours. Am I the only one or am I just on a "remember when" kick like I used to hear when I was a young pup. You remember the folks giving you the walk to school in snow talk right? WTF is happening to quality in this society. People just don't care or so it would seem. I pay a guy 40 to take care of my lawn and he just mows it. In discussion before I hired the SOB I get the "Oh shit I'll get that flowerbed and plant those last couple plants" which gets forgotten once he's hired. ASSHOLE! So what I'm my parents OK so focking what. However, I believe it may go deeper and I'll explain.
Let's call us the Transitional Generation. We are the people who will tell our children that once upon a fock you could buy toilet hardware that would last. Our children will laugh as they throw the weekly upgrade kit in the shopping cart. With a comment like "no way that happened." So we have a Generation that has no idea that it's not ok. I think it's happened through time at a very gradual pace so as not to confuse the next Generation, but just enough to anger the current generation. Which in return cause the next Generation to accept it even quicker...Using the fuck you mom and dad psychology to root it deeply in the brain. Oh well says the next Generation give me my disposable I-POD and shut up DAD. Little fockers....
Anyway, here is my business model....Make shit that works the way it should and use to. Use a little metal where appropriate, I'm sure the struggling steel industry would appreciate that, and guess what you have a loyal consumer base that doesn't feel like they are getting screwed. Why is it a privilege of the privileged to get the best products at a higher that normal price tag...Because they can take you to court maybe? Oh these mom and pops will have to wait until they can form some class suit and end up giving all they refunds to some SOB lawyer. And what of us the American half ass corporate giants...We say we are sorry, pay the bill, buy some more plastic Hong Kong crap, and post another in your ASS profit!
Let's call us the Transitional Generation. We are the people who will tell our children that once upon a fock you could buy toilet hardware that would last. Our children will laugh as they throw the weekly upgrade kit in the shopping cart. With a comment like "no way that happened." So we have a Generation that has no idea that it's not ok. I think it's happened through time at a very gradual pace so as not to confuse the next Generation, but just enough to anger the current generation. Which in return cause the next Generation to accept it even quicker...Using the fuck you mom and dad psychology to root it deeply in the brain. Oh well says the next Generation give me my disposable I-POD and shut up DAD. Little fockers....
Anyway, here is my business model....Make shit that works the way it should and use to. Use a little metal where appropriate, I'm sure the struggling steel industry would appreciate that, and guess what you have a loyal consumer base that doesn't feel like they are getting screwed. Why is it a privilege of the privileged to get the best products at a higher that normal price tag...Because they can take you to court maybe? Oh these mom and pops will have to wait until they can form some class suit and end up giving all they refunds to some SOB lawyer. And what of us the American half ass corporate giants...We say we are sorry, pay the bill, buy some more plastic Hong Kong crap, and post another in your ASS profit!
posted by NappyBread at
2:04 PM
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Just a couple of minutes to post a high-level response. Just my two cents. To the point of why people don't care or so it seems about the quality of services they provide, or what have you...well perhaps people don't take the pride in their work like they used to. Perhaps that could be because it's hard to make a living on what they are providing others since we have devalued labor as a vocation in our developed country to the point where the only people in that vocation are perpetually at a socio-economic disadvantage or don't have the level of education required to grow economically. Either way, the ever-increasing cost of living in this and all industrialized countries has pushed the ones who previously and barely scraped just to be considered "middle class" into the working poor class. This is not because these people suddenly are lazy or stupid, the advancement of the "Haves" could not take place without the displacement of the "Have Nots". That's the only way the rich get richer, always has been the case, always will be. Not through virtue, nor industriousness, nor technology, but through the systematic disenfrachisment of the poor. Next time you want to know why someone who is not doing as good of a job because they don't care as much as one would think they should, keep in mind that if you were in their place would you like it? No one ever says, "Yes please limit my income and force me to not be able to support my family on my income so I have to force my children to work - that will do nicely." Especially when every effort you made to advance was thwarted by invisible walls (obstacles to education, services, housing)?
About Quality. I can sum that up in two ideas: emphasizing profit over quality for greed, and the exporting of America which forces millions of those in the working class to compete on the same playing field as millions of others in various countries who have fewer legal rights just for the growth of profit of a few. If you want to talk about un-patriotic, ask major corporations about why they don't invest in the growth of OUR economy or the prosperity of our greatest national resource...people? But alas, they are above reproach. They aren't so much un-patriotic as they are amoral and without conscience. There's no counterbalance like there used to be with regard to the power of public corporations. That's just the way I see it.
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