Tons of manufacturing is still located here. We prefer to produce engines rather than gasoline. Archie Bunker might have lost his job but with Obama's commie guidance he could have become a project manager!!!!
And the U.S. still possess a world class manufacturing sector. Instead of manufacturing plastic arms for barbie dolls we are manufacturing ceramic blades for jet engines.
Fuck you guys. For the past ten years there has been nothing but negativity from you redboard IT/engineering/helpdesk homos. Seriously, stick your fists into mounds of sand. Scream and holler.
YOU are responsible for our economic malaise. Short-sighted, greedy, one-dimensional cocksucking pricks.
You missed the point. Just because a calculated percentage of GDP is manufacturing does not necessarily a healthy economy correlate.
This thread is insane.
Let me be on record that I think most of the people responding to this fucking thread are nuts. Most of the people who post on this brain-damaged board are engineers and have always been engineers. It follows that most of you can't reason your way out of a god damn motherfucking paper bag even if it was held underwater in an acrylic cage filled with oxygen ions.
Dude, baby boomers have smoked, drugged, and drank their asses off. Hitting an average age of 72 will be an Olympian accomplishment.
They aren't going anywhere. They'll relinquish their power.
It will be the lost generation, Generation X, that will save the planet. A steadfast, doggedly determined group of underprivileged fuckfaces who have nothing better to do than invent novel solutions to problems created by past generations.
It's just an example of what commonly happens in business.
Engineers want to build things and marketers want to sell things.
To increase sales, the engineer will demand to build a new furby and the marketer will demand softer fur. When engineers win that battle, companies tend to go out of business real fast.
The root is the engineering mindset. Whether he gets an MBA or not, at heart he is STILL AN ENGINEER.
Because the largest percentage of MBAs were engineers, and because the greatest percentage of business leaders currently are engineers or were trained as engineers, it stands to reason that the group that should bear the greatest weight for offshoring jobs ARE ENGINEERS.
Complex problems ARE best solved by Engineers, not faggot hipsters who think a giant airbag deploying under an aircraft will make it crash-survivable.
Often, business problems are determined to be complex and engineers are dispatched to solve it. Unfortunately, it was an engineer that determined this. The engineer boss said that the old Furby wasn't good enough. We had to redesign it from the ground-up. The non-engineers, which had no power but knew of the business move, said that all was needed was a new servo to move the ears and softer fur. This would increase sales.
In the end, the engineers never finished the new Furby, and the company took a triple-pinch dump straight into a wooden squat toilet.
The engineers were proud of the new model, and formed a new company by convincing some jackass to supply the needed capital. The finally finished the product but by the time they brought it to market, demand for Furbys had plummeted anyway.
Had they put on some softer fur, sales would have increased, with the profits being plowed into a new product line.
That was one example. So what? It is not statistically relevant. To counter this point, I posted some stats that said that liberal arts grads made up 6% of executives.
In short, why blame them? Why blame MBAs?
Blame those who were actually IN charge of these corporations.
The largest percentage of which, I gently remind, had engineering degrees.
