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MakerBot Is Outsourcing Its Brooklyn Manufacturing Jobs to China

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Re: MakerBot Is Outsourcing Its Brooklyn Manufacturing Jobs to China

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That was condescending. Let's try not to make generalization about a large portion of the country.

I understand the tone may be a little off putting but that is very true. The culture of much of middle America shames dreamers and free thinkers as opposed to working long hours and maximizing profit. That culture is causing a serious brain drain and more importantly a hard ceiling on how far a brand can reach into the unknown. Its the difference between capturing the imaginations of consumers all over the world as o…

No, it's not, that's the original poster's opinion, and it's inaccurate. Have you been to the Midwest?

Re: MakerBot Is Outsourcing Its Brooklyn Manufacturing Jobs to China

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> if you can get the same quality That's a pretty big if. But truth be told, most things don't need to be ultra-high-quality with ultra-tight tolerances.

I'm pretty convinced that you can get any quality you're willing to specify, pay for, and inspect for in China. Where's your iPhone made? China gets a bad rap for the lowest, barely passable spec crap that gets made and sold by vendors seeking the lowest possible COGS. It's not that China can't make iPhones; it's that they get asked to make cheap shit in a lot of cases. And they can happily do that, too...

Sure, but there's the rub - how many iphones get made in a year? Your volume has to be stupid big to make high quality chinese manufacturing make sense.
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