Gok Wan's 'Made in China' last night

[Linford]

Did anyone else get the feeling of impending doom whilst watching that progam last night.

There was a time where the Chinese would come to the west to learn the art of mass manufacturing. Now I think we should be doing the same thing to them

It does help that their skilled workers are happy to live on £10 per day as well

Capitalism in action in a communist country !

 

[ASC1951]

Did anyone else get the feeling of impending doom whilst watching that progam last night.

No. We Westerners have been living on the sweated labour of the developing world for two hundred years; it doesn't distress me that it is their turn.

 

[Moodyman]

Did anyone else get the feeling of impending doom whilst watching that progam last night.

There was a time where the Chinese would come to the west to learn the art of mass manufacturing. Now I think we should be doing the same thing to them

It does help that their skilled workers are happy to live on £10 per day as well

Capitalism in action in a communist country !

There was also a time when China was a flourishing civilsation whilst Europeans lives in caves and hunted with spears. The Chinese view their re-emergence as taking their rightful place at the top. This differs vastly from our popular narrative.

 

[Linford]

No. We Westerners have been living on the sweated labour of the developing world for two hundred years; it doesn't distress me that it is their turn.

Well what I mean is all the clever stuff is now being done by what many consider to be a backward nation. I saw all the cutting edge technology in the shops of HK back in the 70's when I lived there, and they were streets ahead of us.
We think over here that because we have a NHS, and a handful of people pushing the money around in the square mile, that we are somehow superior, but the reality as I see it is that the NHS whilst a force of good is a massive burden, and the banking industry is for all intents and purposes a virtual asset which could just become worthless. It is all very well providing all these perks of citizenship, but we aren't as a nation generating the income to fund them.

Consecutive gov's have shied away from investment in manufacture because it takes a lot more effort to make it work than just printing new banknotes, and that inductry was in reality what originally put the 'Great' into Great Britain. The title just seems now like a lament to the things which our forefathers achieved back in the day....and an echo of the past.

 

[asterix]

The one percent can invest wherever they want, they don't care.

From the Monongahela valley to the Mesabi iron range
To the coal mines of Appalachia, the story's always the same
Seven hundred tons of metal a day, now sir you tell me the world's changed
Once I made you rich enough, rich enough to forget my name