People are used to foreign labor making things cheap, and are soooo removed, now from people who actually make things that they have no concept of what it takes to go from raw materials to finished product. I used to think it just applied to "wimin's work" but I have a friend who's a handyman. Realtors will sometimes ask him to fix up a house - free - so it will sell, and they'll be happy to tell the new homeowner what a great guy he is; he should be happy with the work he'd get from that. Except the defects are already repaired, aren't they? And the new owner isn't required to go with Good, Expensive Handyman. Many of them, having just purchased a house, will hire the cheapest laborer they can find.
Quote attributed to John Ruskin, but often disputed:
11 November 1905, The Winston-Salem Journal (NC),
"Remember that there is hardly anything that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and that people who consider price only, are that man’s lawful prey."
Quote attributed to John Ruskin, but often disputed:
11 November 1905, The Winston-Salem Journal (NC),
"Remember that there is hardly anything that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and that people who consider price only, are that man’s lawful prey."
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