The Brits seem to be doing very well in the science, technology, basic and applied research areas, and so forth. It IS discouraging to see decrepit factories razed to make way for shops selling Chinese knick-knacks. Britain’s exports are of high value-added items.

If the quality of the Chinese knick-knacks sold in Britain are often of as poor quality as those sold here in the states, the buyers will reject them, even if they are of lower price.

Initially, after WWII, Japanese products were of poor quality but slowly improved, and dramatically to become world class. Japan was a democracy after the war. Of course, China remains a communist dictatorship, so individual liberty there is a long way off, if the government has anything to do about it. But, it will come.

Manufacturing is seen by the Chinese government as a means of advancing with available resources.

VeryRetired

Rumpole’s weakness was for Pomeroy’s Claret, a worthy drink for a barrister; not Port, which is just adulterated dregs!

“…Bizarre Comparison…”

Where I live, in a small market City in England, a small construction development project is taking shape, with the usual proposed mix of retail barns selling cheap shoes and cheaper, nastier food no doubt. But my moan is that the area where the shops will stand was cleared by the demolition of small and medium-sized factories!

So we are throwing out our own means of manufacture, and making space to sell more and more “cheap” Chinese goods! The so-called “cheap” goods will turn out to be the most expensive things which British people ever purchase, as they are slowly sending all their manufacture towards ‘The Yellow Peril’, all in the supposed cause of spending less money!

Just what resources is China going to pull out of Tibet to justify this expense? I watched this happen over and over again in the USSR. One of these days the Pearl River Delta is going to take their ball and go home, drying up funding for these sorts of adventures.

My own version is remarkably non-disapproving, although she is dubious about all this internet business. She uses it extensively for work and research, not gabby sites about politics and other blathery wastes of time.

Oops, time to go—she’s repainting her office and needs me to help move some stuff. After all these years, it’s a bonus to still be considered good for something, even if it’s just moving some chairs or a desk.

Perhaps a reward lurks in the lingerie drawer. One can always hope….

But there can be no doubt that women’s intimate apparel empowers the individual.

More investment in reproductive infrastructure!

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Male

Bimbo?

I’m married and have long been out of the acronym lingo.

This sounds low to me. If we have to invest in anything, I say this is it.

Full disclosure: I speak from the perhaps limited perspective of a heterosexual adult male. Others may perceive things differently.