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I found a way to get around tariffs that will raise the price of audio equipment.

I found a way to get around tariffs that will raise the price of audio equipment. What is your solution?

Yes I am serious and this will work. Much talk has been created about sitting down and enjoying the music... finally. Even more discussions about the ever ending quest for better gear vs just enjoying the gear you now own.

So that's what I will do. I am not buying new gear. I will enjoy the music now.

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inna
7,859 posts
 

ghdprentice,

Now I don't want to buy anything high tech made anywhere. It's your fault. In fact, I don't want to buy anything at all. Let's keep our professional "secrets" to ourselves and colleagues.

ghdprentice
7,515 posts
 

sad

 

Oh I thought of a way to make this more palatable. The folks working at these subcontractors and fabs (at least in mainland China) often have come from absolute subsistence existence... I have been in the marginal areas where new plants have opened and no one weighs more than 100 pounds... folks wasting away, just skin and bones, that now have hope. Over time as these plants are established the wages slowly rise and they become more prosperous. They can eat well and buy clothing. This has been the wave starting on the very West of China and slowly sweeping East. 

 

immatthewj
2,690 posts
 

However, my experience is that it does not work. I spent a year of high school in town in Pennsylvania where all the folks worked for Westinghouse. They were paid OK. The work was horrible and repetitive. Overall alcoholism was rampant, wife beating, a standard practice. The kids would drink in high school, get a girl pregnant, quit high school, have the kid... and get drunk and beat their wives... repeat. Yeah, the great old days.

Early in the morning, factory whistle blows
Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes
Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light
It's the work (the work), the working (the working), just the working life (just the working life)

Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain
I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain
Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life
The work (the work), the working (the working), just the working life (just the working life)

End of the day, factory whistle cries
Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes
And you just better believe, boy
Somebody's gonna get hurt tonight

Bruce Springsteen/Factory from Darkness On The Edge Of Town/Columbia Records 1978

 

 

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unclewilbur
77 posts
 

Eggs, chicken, and beef is expensive. But there's no reason to worry because I can eat all the dogs and cats in town.

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