On 04/07/07, Alan B. Pearce <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> The reason this logic doesn't make sense to me, is because if
> >> you're good at what you do (make steel, write programs, et cetera)
> >> YOU DON'T NEED protection. If you need protection, YOU'RE NOT
> >> GOOD at what you do.
>
> Not so. having been a 'victim' of exactly this problem I definitely do not
> agree with you.
>
> >"You are not good at what you do" does not mean that
> >"you do not need to do it".
>
> That I do agree with. In my situation, I grew up in New Zealand with a
> flourishing electronics industry, that operated economically, the company
> had good export markets for a significant proportion of its export range -
> and then the government removed import protection. The company I did my
> apprenticeship with no longer does any product R&D, no longer has a factory
> building any product at all, and the company is now a shadow of its former
> size, being only a box shifter of stereos, car radios and other brown goods.
> <snip........>

Hi Allan,

Just out of interest - what was the company? I used to work for Pye in
Auckland which seems to fit the description but there were several
others. (Allied Industries,
AWA)
Taits, here in Chch is still going strong & does not appear to have
plans to move manufacturing offshore, but Dynamic are moving, we've
moved (the manufacturing side anyway, of what used to be Swichtec) and
others have disappeared  altogether.  Hmm - I worked for EMI, AWA,
Pye, Austral Cables and Eltec/Swichtec - all names no longer in
current household usage. Better not tell the boss! (Also Motorola in
the UK but they seem to be surviving!)


Richard P
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