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Originally Posted by Mistress
I agree,heard about this on NPR this morning. I don't think pushing out crap products at the speed of light is ultra efficient when the crap has to get re-called.....what is efficient is someone on our end catching this contaminated crap. Glad i don't work in a pediatricians office today...Elmo kicked to the curb.
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This is nothing new. Attempts to leapfrog to high production at any cost has plagued China for a long, long time and will continue until production quotas are abandoned in favor of quality, and the average worker or factoryman can feed and house themselves without having to work an 80+ hour week.
Mao's "Great Leap Forward" provides a good example and the name ittself is a clue to the government's dogma. One goal of the Great Leap was to greatly increase industrial production. Quality wasn't the issue and China's backyard furnaces produced record levels of totally substandard and useless steel.