"IT'S THE INEFFICIENT AND NON-PRODUCTIVE LABOR, STUPID."

Two automotive wheel lug-nuts of different manufacture.

A
B


Interchangeable in use but A is 1/16 inch longer and 1/16 inch smaller in hex. dimension, thus requiring different expensive tooling and double operator time in manufacture. Also required are a different size of lug wrench for each size of nut arbitrarily produced by it's manufacturer. Here we go again.




This exibit is basic to our national problem of inefficient or completely non-productive labor. Now consider the < MULTIPLIED duplication of wasted labor by the production of complete vehicles of comparable or identical utility with their many thousands of parts by two or more manufacturers.
The politicians struggle to produce more 'jobs'. Can we afford the luxury of 'jobs' of this type? There are 'jobs' and there are PRODUCTIVE JOBS and thereby hangs a tale.


For an in-depth essay by Ellis Cooper see:

A Study in New Economic Policy


Copyright 1996 by E. S. Cooper, P.O. Box 257, Alderpoint, CA 95511 (707)926-5414