Comments on: American companies saved labor costs, but they lost the daily feel for ways to improve their products

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 24 May 2024 05:36:26 +0000

As a rule, The System fucks those who agree to its tenets and leaves those who haven’t bought in unmolested.

By: Pseudo-Chrysostom

Pseudo-Chrysostom — Fri, 24 May 2024 02:58:19 +0000

Are 'copper thieves' an abstract energy field that randomly afflicts some areas and not others? Or, are they perhaps instead aristoi, with leave to go about their business without molestation from their social inferiors? You can't stop the Titanic from sinking by shuffling the deck chairs into new arrangements. A copper theft problem is not solved by turning everything into a wildlife enclosure; it is solved by catching the wildlife and hanging them in the public square.

By: Gaikokumaniakku

Gaikokumaniakku — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:06:26 +0000

Also, the cars may or may not be well-designed but the charging stations apparently were designed to be convenient for copper thieves.

By: Gaikokumaniakku

Gaikokumaniakku — Mon, 13 May 2024 21:38:55 +0000

“Musk, in contrast, spent more time walking assembly lines than he did walking around the design studio. ‘The brain strain of designing the car is tiny compared to the brain strain of designing the factory,’ he says.”

I have heard rumors that Tesla cars cannot survive car washes or mud puddles unless they are first put into “car wash mode.” If such rumors are true, maybe the factory is well-designed but the car is badly designed.

By: M. Mack

M. Mack — Mon, 13 May 2024 17:42:59 +0000

Elon sounds pretty “Old School,” like Henry Ford and his right hand man “Cast Iron” Charlie Sorensen. Between them, they defined the auto industry, with the moving assembly line, one worker doing one task, and setting up the River Rouge plant to be vertically integrated, from the iron ore being turned into steel and iron in blast furnaces on site all the way to the cars rolling off the end of the line, and close to every step in between.