"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:cMMBb.302393$Dw6.1006170@attbi_s02...

It's amazing, isn't it? I don't pretend to understand how they can
possibly
make that stuff in Thailand cheaper than we can make it here -- the
shipping
alone has to cost 50% or more of that six bucks.

One branch of our company ships entire computer systems to Eastern Europe
for about $16; it's slow, but my maintaining the pipeline timing, they
arrive "in time"


I'd guess that the Thai (and Chinese) people are simply more dedicated to
what they're trying to do economically than we are...


Well, having been brought up in poverty, they understand the work ethic,
something lost on most Americans. They want to do the job right; Americans
just want to do the job (and collect the paycheck).

Americans want to consume like free-marketers, but want to work like
socialists.