Chinese

[baoli liu]

Obviously Pianotech is not the best list to talk about
Chinese or Japanese or whoever...

But Ric,

One thing that i think that YOU should be a lot more
conscious about is that you have to understand what
you are talking about!

Baoli Liu,RPT


>> One thing that I think everyone should be a lot
more
> conscious about is 
> the working conditions for humans around the globe. 
> Easy... far to easy 
> to simply put aside the thought when one sees
> extremely low prices.  But 
> personally, I have a very nasty feeling in my
> stomach when I buy 
> something I know is produced by humans recieving a
> sub-substanance 
> salary for and are forced to work 12-18 hours a day
> 6-7 days a week for 
> nearly the whole year.  Not that I am accusing any
> particular piano 
> manufacture of this sort of policy... tho I could...
>  but just to point 
> out that before one hops all over the eurphoria of
> buying <<acceptable 
> quality>> for ridiculously low prices each of us
> should take more then a 
> token effort to find out just what lies behind the
> glossy front cover.
> 
> Heck... even in todays Japan folks*_ must  _*work
> far more hours then 
> even US norms would tolerate.  And Japan is by far
> not an extreme case.
> 
> Add to that the fact that domestic manufacturers are
> struggling to the 
> point of extinction... I think Joe Garret raises a
> point all should 
> think on to a far greater degree then seems evident
> today. 


		
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