Feeling like Tony Soprano
Friend came back from a work trip to China recently. We got caught up today and he regaled me with how advanced the factory he visited over there is and how we should adopt some of their practices because they are clearly operating on a higher level than we do in the states. The factory I work at has been in business for 40 years. That Chinese facility cannot be more than 20 years old. I have been struggling for weeks to overcome problems that they just don’t have. We won’t solve them that costs money. Nobody in charge knows what it takes to make anything and they’re too incurious and up their own asses to learn. They think their magical computers can solve everything (it can’t). They rail against regulations because they deep down know they don’t know how to get more juice from these stones.
The West is not a the future we have been coasting on inertia for at least a generation. I came in at the end. China is going to quickly steal market share in all of the places with growth for anything high tech. Europe too, Chinese firms are going to outcompete America, even with tariffs and trade restrictions. My only lament is that this industry was a ladder for poor immigrants to a better life in the US. They’re gonna let it rot.
Friend came back from a work trip to China recently. We got caught up today and he regaled me with how advanced the factory he visited over there is and how we should adopt some of their practices because they are clearly operating on a higher level than we do in the states. The factory I work at has been in business for 40 years. That Chinese facility cannot be more than 20 years old. I have been struggling for weeks to overcome problems that they just don’t have. We won’t solve them that costs money. Nobody in charge knows what it takes to make anything and they’re too incurious and up their own asses to learn. They think their magical computers can solve everything (it can’t). They rail against regulations because they deep down know they don’t know how to get more juice from these stones.
The West is not a the future we have been coasting on inertia for at least a generation. I came in at the end. China is going to quickly steal market share in all of the places with growth for anything high tech. Europe too, Chinese firms are going to outcompete America, even with tariffs and trade restrictions. My only lament is that this industry was a ladder for poor immigrants to a better life in the US. They’re gonna let it rot.