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- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Why memory costs doubled
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.170437.13239@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1992Dec31.134751.5376@lth.se>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:04:37 GMT
- Lines: 52
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- f88hv@efd.lth.se (Henrik Vallgren) writes:
-
- >A few years back, I read a book review in BYTE. The story
- >of the book was how Sony got into the television set market
- >in the US. It's not about unfair trade, it's about short-
- >sighted american businesses trying to make a quick buck.
-
- >Sony offered a US manufacturer to sell tv sets cheaper than
- >the US manufacturer could make them. In stead of trying to
- >cut costs in production, the US manufacturer gladly accepted
- >Sony's offer, i e invited Sony into the US market.
- >A few years passed and Sony learned how the US market worked.
- >It was time for Sony's next move. They offered the same tv
- >sets directly to the stores, just a bit cheaper, and put a
- >new label onto their sets. The US "maker" was now almost out
- >of business.
-
- >THIS DISCUSSION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH UNFAIR COMPETITION.
- >What it's about is how much profit an investor demands out
- >of his investment. If the japanese always are willing to
- >accept lower returns than american "businessmen", free trade
- >will, justly, result in japanese taking over market after
- >market.
-
- Right! Good for them (the Japanese). That *is* how the free market is
- supposed to work.
-
- >In fact, in the same review (I think), it was made clear that
- >american "businessmen" where only too happy to let go of the
- >memory market, since profits where too low for them. What has
- >now occured to them is that memory has become a good way for
- >asian industries to learn how to produce hightech silicon.
- >The idiots who gave up the memory market and concentrated on
- >the highprofit areas will soon fidnd them selves some real
- >hard competition. To the benefit of us endusers of course.
-
- To our benefit until the U.S. Government steps in, wielding force so that
- some parasite politicians can claim to be looking out for American businesses
- and American jobs in order to get votes. They'll impose tariffs and other
- fees that represent money taken by force for which no product or service of
- value is provided, i.e. extortion, and we'll all have to pay the higher
- prices that will result.
- Of course, if I mailed a bucket of puke to Congress, I'd probably get
- arrested for something...
-
- >This discussion is about longterm vs. shortterm investment.
- >Those not willing to make longterm investments don't belong
- >in the industry.
-
- They don't belong in business, period.
-
- -JTT
-