The book Capital Moves discusses how (Victor and then) RCA worked to find the lowest-wage workers, then moved to another city, and then another city, and finally out of the country when US wages were not low enough. The academic author gets some things wrong but it is thought provoking.
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Yes, I have read it, good book, lots of data.
Not caring much for the author´s opinion , to each his own, but on facts mentioned, which can be independently checked, specially official statistics on labour, wages, population, external trade, etc. , and on that point the Author did a thorough job.
Never had it in full, sadly, but got fragments here and there and have interpolated the missing parts; and it shows the de-industrialization trend that worries me so much.
EDIT: I searched again, and now found a direct link.
Mind you, I am all for lowering costs (or I´d be commercially dead for decades now) and to a point "want to pay as little as possible", much to he horror of my liberal friends 😉 but a Factory is not alone in vacuum, it is part of the whole Society and the total must be considered.
As in: don´t kill your customer base, don´t kill the golden eggs goose.
Paying fishhead and rice salaries and selling at steak and whisky price looks like an excellent business at face value but then local factory closes and happy cheap product buyer now becomes an unhappy unemployed guy, or at least a sub-employed one, working for Mc salaries.
And even if products are cheaper, when salaries go down or even worse, it´s hard to impossible to find a job, what´s the point of having a lower price ticket when wallet is empty?
Which to a point is hidden by offering lots of Credit but of course, someday you´ll have to actually pay for it.
Tariff protected Brazilians have the most expensive I Phone in the World ... but they can buy one, paying out of their Industrial worker wages.
If no Tariff, they would not be able to buy anything at all with coffee or rubber plantation salaries, so in practice it would be way more expensive or plain impossible.
In a nutshell: comparing prices and salaries by "money" alone (Euros, Dollars, whatever) is misleading, what really matters is hours/days/weeks/months/years needed to buy anything.
Yes, I have read it, good book, lots of data.
Not caring much for the author´s opinion , to each his own, but on facts mentioned, which can be independently checked, specially official statistics on labour, wages, population, external trade, etc. , and on that point the Author did a thorough job.
Never had it in full, sadly, but got fragments here and there and have interpolated the missing parts; and it shows the de-industrialization trend that worries me so much.
EDIT: I searched again, and now found a direct link.
Mind you, I am all for lowering costs (or I´d be commercially dead for decades now) and to a point "want to pay as little as possible", much to he horror of my liberal friends 😉 but a Factory is not alone in vacuum, it is part of the whole Society and the total must be considered.
As in: don´t kill your customer base, don´t kill the golden eggs goose.
Paying fishhead and rice salaries and selling at steak and whisky price looks like an excellent business at face value but then local factory closes and happy cheap product buyer now becomes an unhappy unemployed guy, or at least a sub-employed one, working for Mc salaries.
And even if products are cheaper, when salaries go down or even worse, it´s hard to impossible to find a job, what´s the point of having a lower price ticket when wallet is empty?
Which to a point is hidden by offering lots of Credit but of course, someday you´ll have to actually pay for it.
Tariff protected Brazilians have the most expensive I Phone in the World ... but they can buy one, paying out of their Industrial worker wages.
If no Tariff, they would not be able to buy anything at all with coffee or rubber plantation salaries, so in practice it would be way more expensive or plain impossible.
In a nutshell: comparing prices and salaries by "money" alone (Euros, Dollars, whatever) is misleading, what really matters is hours/days/weeks/months/years needed to buy anything.
If you use PP that is possible but US transformers can only handle 115V rms so that's not so much. European style transformers can handle 230V rms so they don't saturate as early as the US transformers.
Secondly: use toroids. They perform usually a lot better the E I.
So a EU toroid 115V +115V, tubes with low Ri (6c33, 6080, 6as7g, 6c19, 6c41 or many parallel tubes el84, el34, 6l6, 6550, kt88 and so on)
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