What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@MattSpeller said:
Getting seriously tired of the CDN dollar being far below 1:1. It'd be OK if my salary went up 30% to compensate but it never seems to.
http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=CAD&to=USDWhy does it matter? Unless you mostly buy things from the US?
Well it isn't like they make anything in Canada except for maple syrup.
Don't forget the Canadian bacon and Moose Jerky.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller And we do?
USA makes just about everything. Loads of manufacturing is in the US. It's famous for how much it makes from manufacturing to media to software.
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@coliver said:
Don't forget the Canadian bacon and Moose Jerky.
I'm not convinced that either of those things are real things.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Don't forget the Canadian bacon and Moose Jerky.
I'm not convinced that either of those things are real things.
I've actually had Moose Jerky in Vermont... it is not to my liking. There is also a famous John Candy movie called Canadian bacon if I recall.
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I love Canadian Bacon, at least on pizza...
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Moose Jerky is weird, I really don't like it. Canadian Bacon is awesome.
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Why no moose bacon?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller And we do?
USA makes just about everything. Loads of manufacturing is in the US. It's famous for how much it makes from manufacturing to media to software.
So what, the media is full of it that the US doesn't manufacture anything anymore? I know that we do some stuff as my dad works on a subway car manufacturing line, well used to. He was so good at fixing broken shop things that they made that his full time job instead.
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@Dashrender said:
So what, the media is full of it that the US doesn't manufacture anything anymore?
Yup. And things that are not made in the US are quite often assembled there so they are in US currency when sold anyway. Sure, China makes more things than anywhere else. They also consume more things and make the cheapest stuff. The US still makes tons and tons of the stuff that you actually would want to buy.
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Think about this....
Not only are the biggest "US carmakers" making their cars in the US (GMC, Ford and Tesla) but so are the biggest European car makes (Fiat, VW, Mercedes) and Japanese (Honda, Toyota.) Even the cars that we think of as being foreign are often made in the US.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Think about this....
Not only are the biggest "US carmakers" making their cars in the US (GMC, Ford and Tesla) but so are the biggest European car makes (Fiat, VW, Mercedes) and Japanese (Honda, Toyota.) Even the cars that we think of as being foreign are often made in the US.
I was just going to mention that. If you drive a car no matter the manufacturer chances are it was assembled in either the US or Canada.
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Lots of computers are made in the US (Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle all do some there) and more and more consumer electronics are (Google and Apple both have US manufacturing now.) Even the areas where the US is famously weak it is starting to manufacture more.
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Labor statistics (the ones that are available) seem to point to the US losing manufacturing jobs in the early to late 00's. That has turned around in the last three-four years. We are no where near where we were at our peak, but I don't think that is because of lack of jobs more that those are being moved to other silos.
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@Dashrender said:
@MattSpeller said:
Getting seriously tired of the CDN dollar being far below 1:1. It'd be OK if my salary went up 30% to compensate but it never seems to.
http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=CAD&to=USDWhy does it matter? Unless you mostly buy things from the US?
Canada has a huge export economy (oil, logs, cars, etc). Thus, low $CDN means our exports do really well because costs to produce are lower. Unfortunately for me what we export is not what I purchase nor how I make my living. Shopping on ebay for me is now ~40% more expensive after you factor in exchange and processing fees.
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I means that Canadians cannot afford their own wood and oil and American can gobble it up for cheap.
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It's worth noting that it's been a ~40% increase in only 2 years for online shopping. It's almost to the point now where big box stores are competitive again.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Think about this....
Not only are the biggest "US carmakers" making their cars in the US (GMC, Ford and Tesla) but so are the biggest European car makes (Fiat, VW, Mercedes) and Japanese (Honda, Toyota.) Even the cars that we think of as being foreign are often made in the US.
yeah, I knew that many had gone to local assembly lines in the US - seems surprising that labor was low enough to warrant that - though I guess tariffs can make that happen easy enough.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Think about this....
Not only are the biggest "US carmakers" making their cars in the US (GMC, Ford and Tesla) but so are the biggest European car makes (Fiat, VW, Mercedes) and Japanese (Honda, Toyota.) Even the cars that we think of as being foreign are often made in the US.
yeah, I knew that many had gone to local assembly lines in the US - seems surprising that labor was low enough to warrant that - though I guess tariffs can make that happen easy enough.
Tariffs and the high cost of shipping products from across the ocean. What blows my mind is that places like Nicaragua which are insanely low labour (bordering on free at under 10% US labour costs, sometimes closer to 5%) costs, low real estate costs, and nearby for easy shipping by truck, rail or ocean are not being flooded with opportunities considering CAFTA-DR means that there cannot be tariffs for selling into the US market.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Think about this....
Not only are the biggest "US carmakers" making their cars in the US (GMC, Ford and Tesla) but so are the biggest European car makes (Fiat, VW, Mercedes) and Japanese (Honda, Toyota.) Even the cars that we think of as being foreign are often made in the US.
yeah, I knew that many had gone to local assembly lines in the US - seems surprising that labor was low enough to warrant that - though I guess tariffs can make that happen easy enough.
How many man-hours vs machine-hours goes into a car though? I doubt it is even comparable. There a lot of things going for US manufacturing, especially easily automated stuff like automobile.
