Theres a reason why cheap tools are cheap!

[Mgdoug3]

I had AP history in high school around 2005 and I remember learning about The Jungle and what happened afterwards. I'm assuming it's still taught in school but maybe not.

 

[Rabid Badger]

Theres a reason cheap tools are cheap!

There's more than one way to make affordable tools. Taiwan makes them by employing state-of-the-art manufacturing technology.

Whenever you see people thrown into a meat grinder like this, there's a psychopath that cares more about making money than they misery they inflict.

By no means am I any sort of "bleeding heart", but you've really touched on something here. The majority of Americans have absolutely ZERO sense of what real poverty is. I haven't been there/seen that as you have, but I did learn a valuable lesson about this when I was a kid from my dad. He grew up during the Great Depression and often told me that his family and most families he knew were so poor, they had no idea that there was any "Depression". It was just life as usual for the area I came from. He was in the US Navy during and after WWII in the Pacific. Though he had many related tales, the one story that always stood out to me was the time his ship took a load of rice to some Chinese port to drop off for the locals. He literally witnessed starving people whose country had been devastated by years of Japanese occupation, with chopsticks underneath the pier picking up individual grains of rice that had slipped through the cracks in the wood and fallen on the rocks below. Not scoops full, not hands full...individual grains. That is real poverty, and sadly there is no shortage of it around various parts the world.

I'm not sure if you intended it this way, but dismissing peoples' problems because their lives are merely a constant struggle rather than a waking nightmare is a bad take.

I’m amazed. I can’t walk past a big battery like that without it eating pinholes in my pants or shirt. I don’t know how his clothes don’t look like they’ve been hit with a dozen shotgun blasts.

I guarantee they gave them those clothes for the video.

So … a general comment on the **** workers in the videos. They seem to take pride in their product. And i bet they show up every day, on time.

For 6 months. Then they get sick and die.

 

[mervyn]

Much of started (in the US at least) after publication of The Jungle 1910 or thereabouts.

Important read..was part of my public school curriculum in the 80's. Wonder if it is now.

I remember reading that book in high school.

 

[67carl]

Much of started (in the US at least) after publication of The Jungle 1910 or thereabouts.

Important read..was part of my public school curriculum in the 80's. Wonder if it is now.

I had AP history in high school around 2005 and I remember learning about The Jungle and what happened afterwards. I'm assuming it's still taught in school but maybe not.

I remember reading that book in high school.

I also read it in high school, and again recently thanks to my fiancée (an English Professor). Except she has the Norton Critical Edition. It has extras like historical context, criticisms, background, analysis, etc. Almost as interesting as the book itself.

My issue with the book then and now is it just fell apart in the second half. It was like someone else wrote it or he just gave up. I found out reading the extras that he ran out of money (Upton Sinclair) and was behind on the deadline. He was also a socialist (hence why he had money) and he kinda slipped off, mentally, a bit.

 

[Boogerman]

Surprisingly, hand labor very effective small batch manufacture. I make an industrial part in quantity, 50 part batch, 8 hand operations, power tools used wet planer blade sharpener, flex shaft grinder and buffer. Get good with practice, I clear $75 or more per hour, charge $6 for part. Cost $250,000 plus make machine compete with me. Not enough demand pay for machine. I do extreme QC, over 20 years not had a defective return yet and no report of a single failure. I wear safety glasses and respirator, have warm, clean, comfortable work area. Well lighted when led lights not burned out. No health problems. Paid kids through college with it, nice shop, and toys.

 

[Alpine4x4]

So … a general comment on the **** workers in the videos. They seem to take pride in their product. And i bet they show up every day, on time.

Of course they do, if they dont they starve. No welfare checks there.

 

[Half-fast eddie]

Booger … can you post a picture of the product?

 

[Boogerman]

Booger … can you post a picture of the product?

No, neither I nor main client want cheap competition

 

[neophyte]

While some of the manufacturing steps look and likely are dangerous, everything step is being done to a systematic approach for what appears to be maximum efficiency with the set up they have.
I’ve seen plenty of small businesses in the US that were probably less efficient, and probably occasionally more dangerous.
I have no clue how efficient Pakistan’s electrical grid is, but it obviously isn’t up to the same standards you would currently expect in the US, although I’m sure there are businesses that are currently operating just as safely as the electrical setup in the battery video.
100 years ago in the US, files were still being heated for correction and hardening in vats of hot molten lead with the workers standing next to those vats for hours on end.(This was how the Vixen files were heated for hardening and to correct twists or bends.)