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Originally Posted by glatt
The latest is drywall. Make sure you don't buy drywall made in China. They are putting the waste into the drywall and selling it to us.
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Because they discovered a market where business school graduates buy and resell only based upon price. Could not bother to learn what was in that drywall. Did not care about the product or the customer. Did exactly what business schools teach: the purpose of a company is profits.
Same problem exists in so many products. For example, the computer assembler is responsible for meeting American standards. Asian exporters discovered that many (if not a majority) of American computer assemblers and A+ Certified Computer techs do not even know how electricity works. So they dump power supplies into the market sometimes missing functions even required before 1970. The computer boots; so the technically naive computer assmebler declares it OK.
Then when a computer has problems, a naive consumer is told to spend $100 for a UPS to fix that $20 discount - missing functions inside that supply.
Political extremists, business school perverts, unscrupulous exporters - in every case they get away with it because so many Americans just blindly believe what they are told to believe - fail to learn or remember even science taught in school.
Some retailers are more responsible. However the food industry has quietly conceded they cannot guarantee the quality of their products. Food industry had no program to learn what is put inside their products. One major offender was Beechnut who even knew they were selling tainted baby food - and continued to do so because it increased profit margins.
You have stack of drywall in the warehouse awaiting shipment. How could you not know how bad it smelled? They knew enough to at least ask some simply and damning questions. Instead, they did exactly what is taught in business schools.