Except that you can have the best design in the world, if you don’t have the capacity to make it right you FAIL. I think you’ve made more of an idiot of yourself than you think. All the design and theory in the world will get us to the next galaxy. In practice however……..
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Yeah, and Apple has the capacity to design like no other, and almost zero capacity to produce. They don't seem to be doing so bad, with all those 200+ billion in the bank and leading the industry even with 2+ y.o. designs in most of their products. Apple can (and does) command others' capacities to produce, which is what successful companies have been doing for the past fifty years. Knowledge economy is just that: knowledge (the ability to create, innovate, design) is much more valuable than the ability to produce. Any Chinese sweatshop, properly instructed, can produce whatever you want. The big bucks are not in production, but in design. You only need to produce if you have no talent to create. If you have the talent to create, the money you make much more than pays for production.
Yearning to bring production back to the USA is par with that toxic nonsense of "making America blah-blah-blah again". It's like advocating a throwback to the good'ol'fifties, in its glorious barbarity. Manufacturing pays little and doesn't produce knowledge. In the Post-Second-World_War world, with Europe destroyed, Asia a big agricultural continent, and the USA as the only viable industrial park available, sure, manufacturing paid off. but that world is long gone.
You cling to "design and manufacturing, love and marriage, horse and carriage" like it means anything. You need manufacturing to make your designs real? Sure, but manufacturers are a dime a dozen. Hundreds of small factories in Guangzhou and a dozen other Chinese cities are waiting to produce whatever you can think of and show them how to make. Just be sure to create something unique and of exceptional quality, or else they'll take about 30 seconds to copy it and produce several hundred million units for a fraction of what you charge. Heck, whatever you throw at them will give birth to a cheap knockoff a week later. they can pay US$8 a week for someone to make it, and there will be a line to apply for the jobs. And that's where good design comes in. The knockoffs will never be as good as the original, and thus companies with high quality products thrive. In my original post I asked exactly that: which would you rather have? No-money production lines cannibalizing each other with cheap knockoffs, or top notch design companies?
Sheesh, why do I even bother?
Another extremely poor analogy. You realize that there are plenty of shoes that do not require shoelaces, don't you?
