Inexpensive outsourcing
From the same country we’re sending all Tech support calls to comes the unveiling of a car that costs $2,500. Like Tech support calls, I’m having a hard time understanding!
“Hey Whalid, who has the keys?”
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I want this one instead
??? I can’t believe how much they want for those, for the same price, I think I’ll take one of these. At least it doesn’t look like a Barbie Accessory.
Yeah but can you part two in a parrallel spot? No.
true, but I’ll be more likely to survive a head-on collision
Once again the drawbacks of capitalism are displayed in full frontal nudity. The real cost of “goods” hammers away at our american notion of capital and resource. the good ole USA and western europe created a bio-dome effect with the industrial revolution, they grew at an exponential rate while relatively unchallenged by countries with just as much resource. The drawback to the growth is correction, we survivied on a “fair” economic system until corporations pushed by greed for profit began to outsource work because labour was/is undervalued in developing countries. When the developing country realises they have valuable capital they gut the american company by buying out the owners for major profit. what the owners don’t realize is they are being bought out with a fading american currency that is having to endure a substantial recession brought on by the emergence of a global economy. this little car is a model picture of how we are wading waste deep in flood waters of inflation that drown more than waters of katrina. Other countries (this would be primarily India) are starting to catch on that their over ambundance of equitable resource far outways the cost of production. What this means: the red, white, and blue is going to have to begin competing with goods that cost less to produce over sees and import into the country than to produce here. In the end it is “fair” but it is filled with mallice, the mallice of the competing dollar. Starved nations are about to realize they have the upper hand and they are going to begin to twist the wrist. Ever since the creation of profit and exponential wealth people have allowed the ends to justify the means. Those who lead the way for american capitalism lined their pockets with out regard to the future and in effet they fed us to the wolves of the world. we are about to get a dose of what we did to africa and south east asia via the same system we used to build our “glory”. all hail the american dream that became the world wide dream and killed the american dream.
Though what you say is really pretty valid, one thing to keep in mind while talking about how “on target” TaTa is with making this car is that they are also the front runners to buy out Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford.
The fact that TaTa is the leading bidder for Jag and Land Rover cements the dispensation of value from america. Ford can no longer support the demands a luxury brand like Jag or LR say they need. Ford doesn’t want to invest capital and TaTa have excess capital to invest. So TaTa will buy out the brands from ford which in the end is really a reflection on the greed and cowardice of Ford Motor Co. If they had any stones at all they would stick it out, people praise them for becoming more nimble and others celebrate TaTa growing to a position of power in the auto world…but why? Why celebrate people who make money by selling off their family brands and why praise a company that doesn’t pay its workers minimum fair compensation? I wonder how LR and Jag owners will feel about buying a vehicle produced by someone that is closer to slave than employee? Oh that’s right, often folks who buy luxury autos don’t give a damn about the abuses there money pays for. Tata is becoming another cog in the capitalist machine…
Along these same lines… would it be more morally responsible to participate in government and try and change it for the better or to try and disengage it, not pay taxes, and not vote. If i try to change it i am still participating and in some way advancing a mechanism i think is inherently broken. However, there is literally no way to completely disengage, so if i can’t escape the grasp of the government should i at least try and do something good?
For me, the moral imperative is action over apathy. There really isn’t anything that I beleve in that would support me not participating and participating very actively towards change. Which of course starts with changing myself and then finding like minded people to work with to make change in the local world around me. In the hopes that that spreads to the world at large!
Awesome conversation!
i agree, it becomes a bakery of give and take, there are time for molatov cocktails and time for doves. very song of solomonish
lol – i mean ecclesiates – not your breasts are like fawns from the SoS
Indeed
When Ford took over ownership of Jaguar I knew that there would be much more budget conscious luxury Vehicles. Take the X-Type; basically a ford contour with a leaping jaguar on the front. My family owned Jags before the company was sold. They were riddled with mechanical problems, and not just in the engine. Door handles broke off, windows stopped working. If you are going to be driving a luxury vehicle the last thing that you want is to be climbing out of the window. We buy luxury for the look the feel and the comfort. If Tata can make a reliable vehicle, no matter what the badging i think that it will be better off from anyone. The middle class will be drawn from the lower classes and have access to the reliability and dependability that is experienced by Lexus owners.