Quote Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy View Post
You forget that ROBOTICS and QUALITY are the two key features which Japan has which America will find extremely hard to replicate. Robotics is a feature of industry which is the first real substantial attempt at removal of the worker from the workplace this is fine in aging Japan not in 300 million people and rising USA. Quality is the next problem you have US goods are in the main crap and there is no two ways about you gave up good quality production in the 60s.
I take it you mean the 1660's. American's long since realized that we couldn't compete with the standard of quality Europe had. Instead we focused on lesser but more broadly avaliable products; the Wal-Mart of it's time. This worked out in the long run. Not everyone can affort an Astin Martin but most people can buy a Ford. I believe you're thinking of Chinese goods.