Quote Originally Posted by wbute View Post
We can all enjoy driving our imported cars to the shops to buy imported food. Go back home to watch imported tv shows on our imported electronic devices sitting in our imported furniture.
The problem is no one will work for $5 an hour in Australia to compete with the countries that will. We cant afford to build anything here.
Either that or we are too lazy. Try and find someone now who will repair something like a starter motor. They tell you to throw it away and fit the u-beaut imported one from China. Same goes for any repair. Not only are we getting lazy, we are getting dumber as we loose all the basic trade skills we once had.
We are all to blame. We support this lifestyle by happily buying the stuff and telling our selves we have to because its cheaper. Its a viscious cycle.
If it wasnt for export money from mining Australia would be rooted. (we are too lazy to actually make anything with the raw products mined here of course).
That is so true you are exactly right in everything you said

I also feel sad for Detroit which was once a thriving city built on the backbone of a massive car industry, it is virtually a ghost town. Grand Toureno was a good movie mildly based on Detroit's demise as it turns into a Ghetto, here's hoping this doesn't happen here in Australia....