Re: Chinese Lenses

From: Tim Killian (TJK_at_notmyrealemail.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:44:53 -0700

China is not at all like Japan. Chinese workers are far more boisterous
and lack discipline. Ask any Japanese manager of a Chinese facility and
he will tell you they must be supervised very closely or quality will
suffer.

The disparity between wages in China and other industrialized countries
is so great that there can be no happy outcome. Average wages in the
U.S. are around $16 an hour versus 40 cents in China. A wage of $2 an
hour would make 50 million Chinese workers very happy, but it would
spell doom for the U.S. (or EU) economy if our average wage dropped to
that level. Wages fell 45% in the U.S. some years back -- it was called
the Great Depression.

Stephen Paul wrote:

> Ed T wrote:
>
>> <fiona_wojcik@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:1108436456.219213.132250@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>> Chloe makes a good point. how do the chinese keep the cost down on good
>>> APOs if the process is allready automated?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> Fiona
>>>
>>
>>
>> In addition to direct labor costs, i.e. that labor directly involved
>> with the lens grinding process there are also indirect labor costs
>> (which can be a much higher cost). This includes all the other
>> non-administrative people, from off loading raw materials to driving
>> the goods to the docks, etc. Overhead (fixed and administrative costs)
>> can be largely payroll (and benefits) as well.
>
>
> China is the Japan of yester-year. Like Japan, they too will rise to the
> ocassion, and drive up their own cost of living to the extent that their
> products will not be cheap, for long. In the meantime, the poor in
> America benefit a la Wal-Mart, as do the wealthy a la foreign
> investments. The middle class of every other nation, as usual, carries
> the burden of having to deal with the roller-coaster of economic ups and
> downs.
>
> SPaul

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