What the non-daycare babies will be doing
With Dithers getting ready to turn federally funded day care into a little creche for future workers so that we can make our kids, er, Chinese, its nice to see that there may be one or two opportunities left for those poor tykes whose parents selfishly keep them at home.
To see just how far things have come—and how far they have yet to go—I visited Hall 16. The massive space was entirely filled with row upon row of booths manned by Chinese sales reps. They were hawking Chinese-made vacuum cleaners and power tools, fans and air conditioners, masking tape and panini presses, drill bits and tape measures, shovels and irons, clocks and coffee makers, juicers, and blow-dryers.
What was just as remarkable as the goods on display was the incompetent salesmanship that accompanied them. Here is a piece of good news for America: The Chinese can make anything, but they still need us to teach them how to sell it.
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It’s not much to offer my deprived children, but it’s something.
Written by jay on September 22nd, 2005 with
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#1. September 22nd, 2005, at 9:24 PM.
Mine will be able to calculate hyperfocal distance and compile her own Linux kernel by the time she’s five.