>>216007883
i like the bit where the eastern european peasant women gather the willow twigs from the forest at dusk and the bit where they sing when they boil the water in those big copper cauldrons to make the steam to straighten the twigs before the journeymen whittlers arrive in those ornately carved gothic looking horse drawn carts, pretty amazing the whole process really, astonishing precision from the lead lathers too, turning the leads down to fit the hole so accurately, fantastic

>watching an old How It's Made episode
>every factory worker is white
I can't help but wonder how many of those factories have closed or moved to China in the meanwhile ;_;

>>216008070
all of them

>>216008070
if a company is making some metal tube or something for a customer for $40, they can ship a few to different chinese factories and have a quote back in a day to build it over there and it will probably be $4. Can put 100% terrifs and it's still cheaper.

>>216008296
quality will be dogshit tho like all chinese things

>outsource all jobs to overseas
>nobody has a job
>nobody has money to buy anything
what did global free market capitalism mean by this?

>>216008311
Chinese made goods consistently outdo American ones in performance tests

>>216007883
>this was my mums favourite program
it makes sense now

>>216008328
You have to buy staple goods regardless, you will degrade yourself with a job below your grade for them, the profit just goes to better, more productive countries now

>>216008330
in my personal experience, they're dogshit, there was a noticeable decline in the quality of consumer goods once everything was outsourced to china, not to mention the glut of outright fake goods flooding the market, fake batteries, fake bike parts, fake car parts, stuff only fit for the trash, like i said, dogshit

>>216007883
Just after my kid was born this was all we watched because iwe didn't have enough time to watch anything serious and HiiM is enjoyable from minute to minute without having to see the whole process.
Me and my Mrs used to place bets on whether the unformed piece would be called a blank or a slug.

>>216008330
Lol okay chang

>>216008311
that's a big risk but for little shitty plastic parts and stuff it's a no brainer.

>>216008330
they have some good factories but in practice yeah it's garbage, i think they cheat on what materials they use and so forth.

>>216007883
Why was everybody's dad obsessed with this

>>216009996
Don't know about dads but I'm getting old and I'm starting to rewatch the old episodes.