Err. Sure..Tell GM chairman to talk to just about every other tech company that is surviving/thriving with both domestic and foreign “labor”. How about bringing something to the table that other people haven’t done, like innovation.[/quote]
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So….another non-answer.[/quote]
Paddy: How is that a non-answer? Because it’s not your answer?
I grew up in the Silicon Valley during the 1970s and saw firsthand the game changing sort of innovation that GM once had (and, don’t forget, GM actually invented one of the first mechanical hearts). Silicon Valley has been able to consistently re-invent itself from defense work (1960s) to PCs/Microprocessors (1970s) to cutting edge graphics engines and network systems (1980s) to the internet (1990s) to Green technology (present day).
FLU is 100% right: Innovate or perish. It doesn’t matter what industry, you have to do it bigger, better, cheaper and faster than the other guy.
Crying about what used to be isn’t going to solve the problem, nor is demanding a return to those impossible “30 and Out” labor programs that the unions suicidally negotiated. Read up on Schumpeter’s “Creative Destruction” and learn, Grasshopper. You’re either pushing forward or getting left behind.
As we used to say in the Army: FIDO. Fuck It, Drive On!
