Des Imoto マキシ on Nostr: In 1977 Mercedes-Benz made 250,000 cars. Beautiful cars. Reusable, long lasting ...
In 1977 Mercedes-Benz made 250,000 cars. Beautiful cars. Reusable, long lasting (500,000-1 million miles), highly efficient (25/30mpg). Workers in Germany were well paid, single income households. They drove a Mercedes and got a pension to happily for the their lives without a worry. And shareholders lived of the fat dividends.
Today Mercedes builds 2.1 million cars a year, they are disposable plastic items, many of them electric vehicles ruining the environment with Lithium mines and chemicals and they either end up on massive land fills unsold because there are too many cars made or disposed after 200,000 miles. Workers are struggling with dual income families and they’ll have to work well into their 80s, whether they know that yet or not. And even then and even with all the automation, production in Germany is too expensive and moved elsewhere.
Is that progress? Something doesn’t add up. Maybe they should just go back to building 250,000 cars that are good?
Today Mercedes builds 2.1 million cars a year, they are disposable plastic items, many of them electric vehicles ruining the environment with Lithium mines and chemicals and they either end up on massive land fills unsold because there are too many cars made or disposed after 200,000 miles. Workers are struggling with dual income families and they’ll have to work well into their 80s, whether they know that yet or not. And even then and even with all the automation, production in Germany is too expensive and moved elsewhere.
Is that progress? Something doesn’t add up. Maybe they should just go back to building 250,000 cars that are good?