Manufacturing Defined: Making Things!

Making money doesn't count....

Making money does not define "manufacturing."

In fact for many companies, making money doesn't even make them a business some years.

The issue is what constitutes manufacturing, and wholesaling or importing are not manufacturing.

Milo

I said in a Tongue in cheek.......

The transition when a manufacturing company becomes a management company. I have see it happen, and it's usually due to surviving as a company.....

When it happens the company usually loses its core values and seemly progress without direction....... just to generate cash flow and profitability...

I have worked at such companies, and for me it unsettling.

I get it. I am sad to say it, as an MBA myself, but it usually coincides with the arrival of the MBA's...

Milo

The company that I worked...... its a transitional thing......... some manufacturers such as OEM's job items out....... it is cheaper...... and the focus is soon lost....... I worked at a company (Machine Shop) that was going into a ownership transition, and the original owner requirement to the new owner a stipulation of 'buying into' the company was that he had to get his MBA. (he already had an undergraduates degree in Chemical Engineering)

Well Manufacturing was replaced with enterprising selling, and the problem is, sure it works. but the people had to stay focused. I was only there for about a year. but every 2 months we had to get together and refocus to get back to enterprise selling......

I was left go because I did not fit the culture.......... which I agree.

Yet, I was hired back 3 weeks later as a contractor, due to customers requests.......... (At a very high hourly rate......... a little of enterprising selling of myself)

But frankly, after awhile it was more than I could take, I was not a fit there.

"Deceiving consumers and the voters with fraudulent numbers is what this about.

But you aren't a manufacturer unless you actually make things."

Bravo!

Of course, Nationalism is 'bad for business' and makes Corporations cry.

If we the short-lived fleshy things are too wrapped up in things like 'national pride' and 'social welfare,' how can we properly grovel and worship at the feet of the Eternal, Undying 'True' People, the Corporate Personhoods?

With all the power grabs corporations have made in just the past few years, NAFTA, SOPA, Peoples United, the TPP, isn't it obvious that the Corps are trying to abolish nations, abolish religions, abolish personal freedom, and set themselves up as the rulers of the world, all in a bid for more and more power. They don't even care about Profit for Profit's sake, money is just how they keep score.

While I don't buy into the full scope of what you're describing, I do believe there is a good bit of truth in it. As well as having the politicians either bought off by the corps or trying to manipulate them to their own ends.

It appears nobody (or damn few) in a position of power does anything for the USA anymore.

Hooker

Hyperbole and 'fear-mongering' seem to be what Americans respond to these days. The GOP appears to understand this, actively supporting the 'Extreme Right' as a way to make their own position seem 'centrist' and make the Democrats seem like 'commie liberal fascists' to their 'actual centrist' constituents.

(I know that Communism and Facism are separate, incompatible political entities, but again, you have the hyperbole; Commies are scary, Nazi's are scary, Commie Nazis must be even scarier than either group alone.)