12-22-2008, 03:45 AM
mattkime wrote:
>>One of the signatures of 3rd world economies is that it is always far cheaper to repair things than to replace them. The reason is that human labor is cheap and production not nearly enough. This breeds poverty.
fixing things breeds poverty?
I'm not even sure how to respond to this.
Neither can I when you take a snippet out of my post and make a banner headline. So let me explain. It cost me $40 to have two wiper blades worth $10 replaced. That $40 provides a comfortable middle class life for my mechanic. Would you like it the other way around? Cheap labor, expensive parts. That is what we have in the 3rd world. At the labor rates we have, you can't afford to pay someone to repair stuff.