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If I was a cobbler, Id make shoes. If I knew how to sew, I will sew shirts for people.
These small ticket items cannot be that expensive to make here. Its only expensive to pay people, and since the investors/speculators dont have the skill themselves have no other choice but to find cheap labor to make profit.
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I will create financial assets that are backed by student loans, or medical bills. Then I package a bunch together and get good rating. After which I can sell for an even higher price. This process will rinse and repeat itself until finally the taxpayer has to foot the bill and buy in.
Streetcars and streetcar rails. Farming tools for human and animal labor, not huge machines. Horse-drawn wagons. Foot-powered sewing machines. Comfortable workhorse bikes for shopping and commuting. Woodburning stoves and stovepipes. These items may not sell now, but there is a future for them as fossil fuels become scarce.
I would like to see this property running 4 shifts, 24/7, making me money and providing decent jobs and Made in the USA products.
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Any ideas?
TIA.
4 shifts? So everyone works 6 hours a day.
What about the machines? No down time for maintenance/repairs?
Need ideas? Go to Walmart and look at their top selling items, then look at the price point and flip over the item and see where it is made. Can you make that product better in your fantasy business and can you make it at that price point? If you can't then you just realized why it is made in China/Mexico where ever.
US Steel was a powerhouse, but you need to dig deeper and look at how:
"growth of U.S. Steel and its subsidiaries in the South was partly dependent on the labor of cheaply paid black workers and exploited convicts"
"U.S. Steel maintained the labor policies of Andrew Carnegie, which called for low wages and opposition to unionization"
They started in the early 1900s where the worker was dirt and the corporation was king. In today's environment that isn't possible. Major wars also further financed their successes, again not sure that will play a part in your success.
If I was a cobbler, Id make shoes. If I knew how to sew, I will sew shirts for people.
These small ticket items cannot be that expensive to make here. Its only expensive to pay people, and since the investors/speculators dont have the skill themselves have no other choice but to find cheap labor to make profit.
My father was a cobbler and shoe repairman. You can’t make money these days in shoes. Chinese slave and child labor killed the mass shoe market in the United States. Shoes are disposable these days.
My father was a cobbler and shoe repairman. You can’t make money these days in shoes. Chinese slave and child labor killed the mass shoe market in the United States. Shoes are disposable these days.
Until rising energy costs shut down global trade and automation. Anything-wear, from head to feet, will be growing skilled trades and small stores.
Until rising energy costs shut down global trade and automation. Anything-wear, from head to feet, will be growing skilled trades and small stores.
I don't think that would happen but the skills won't be there anyway.
Lets imagine a shoe shortage at the toilet paper level from last year (all types from kids to large, sneakers to work boots). Shelves are bare, everything is on back order.
So you have a pair of work boots that you think can be salvaged with some type of repair. Who can do it and what will be the repair time/cost/are the repair materials available? I know of ONE shoe repair place in my town, the guy that runs it is 75+ yrs old. He fixes expensive sandals for old ladies and is skilled at his trade but not sure you could drop off 100 pairs of shoes this week and expect them back before Christmas.
Nobody will start a shoe making business (they won't have access to the materials). Most Americans have multiple pairs of shoes, they can likely survive a year or two without buying any new shoes.
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