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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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      @Dashrender said:

      @scottalanmiller said:

      @Dashrender said:

      @scottalanmiller said:

      Think about this....

      Not only are the biggest "US carmakers" making their cars in the US (GMC, Ford and Tesla) but so are the biggest European car makes (Fiat, VW, Mercedes) and Japanese (Honda, Toyota.) Even the cars that we think of as being foreign are often made in the US.

      yeah, I knew that many had gone to local assembly lines in the US - seems surprising that labor was low enough to warrant that - though I guess tariffs can make that happen easy enough.

      Tariffs and the high cost of shipping products from across the ocean. What blows my mind is that places like Nicaragua which are insanely low labour (bordering on free at under 10% US labour costs, sometimes closer to 5%) costs, low real estate costs, and nearby for easy shipping by truck, rail or ocean are not being flooded with opportunities considering CAFTA-DR means that there cannot be tariffs for selling into the US market.

      Is it possibly the drug lords? If manufacturing started being bigger there, eventually there would be a lot more money there, the people would start gaining some independence, etc. Would the cartels like that much?

      Drug lords in Nicaragua? I think you are confusing us with Honduras and Guatemala. Nicaragua doesn't have drug issues outside of the "autonomous territories" where no one lives and the few people there speak English. This is a very free country, many would argue more free than the US. This is a country that went to war with the US specifically over the right to be a self governing democracy!

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @coliver
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        @coliver said:

        Call Centers... it worked well in other low labor places in the world.

        Too late. That is the one business with which Nicaragua is already flooded. Managua is call center central. It's the big business up there.

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        • coliverC
          coliver
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          What kind of native materials are available? It seems like importing all of your raw goods would be insanely expensive. Would that offset the low labor costs?

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          • MattSpellerM
            MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller mangolassi.IndustrialTitans

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            • Minion QueenM
              Minion Queen
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              No I am not involved in all of that!!!

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @coliver
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                @coliver said:

                What kind of native materials are available? It seems like importing all of your raw goods would be insanely expensive. Would that offset the low labor costs?

                This would be a large part of the numbers.
                Yes the raw materials for the items produced in the large Chinese manufacturing locations are also imported. But it built up over time. Initial investments in manufacturing there did not pay off like new investment does.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @coliver
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                  @coliver said:

                  What kind of native materials are available? It seems like importing all of your raw goods would be insanely expensive. Would that offset the low labor costs?

                  Wood is plentiful 🙂 As is gold (new mines just opening up.) Agricultural products are abundant like sugar, coconut, cashew, mango, tobacco, coffee, beef, shrimp and lobster.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
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                    Nicaragua has no tariff import capabilities from the US. So there is always the ability to bring materials in that way.

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                    • MattSpellerM
                      MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller well if you come up with anything I'd love to know more

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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @coliver said:

                        What kind of native materials are available? It seems like importing all of your raw goods would be insanely expensive. Would that offset the low labor costs?

                        Wood is plentiful 🙂 As is gold (new mines just opening up.) Agricultural products are abundant like sugar, coconut, cashew, mango, tobacco, coffee, beef, shrimp and lobster.

                        So find something to make from that to minimize import costs if you can. Most likely you will also have to import the material anyway because that is raw produce and not refined materials ready for manufacturing.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          What is happening with the forum traffic? Why are we exploding as we approach the end of the day and going into the east coast after hours? This is a bit mental...

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender
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                            The UK users are at home then, so perhaps more of them use ML from home than from work.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              Do we see any Brits posting right now? I realize that the graph is reads, not writes, but still.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                In case anyone is wondering which topics are doing this right now...

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                                • DashrenderD
                                  Dashrender
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                                  Not just Brits, but Europeans in general. Being 6+ hours ahead of us, that's their typical evening time.

                                  Can your reports tell you where in the world the hits are coming from?

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
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                                    Sadly geographic information is not something included yet.

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                                    • RojoLocoR
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                                      I just had a moment where I thought I might actually have to justify to the new sales d*ck why I am the only one here who moves equipment.... My indignant look and gruff "I'll get it moved before the end of the day" sufficed, but I thought I was actually going to have to further with it. He is unknowingly glad that didn't happen.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        Just provided plenty of good advice to someone on SW and, they deleted their post after I put in that effort. That SW allowed people to delete my posts because they decide that they don't want the advice, feel embarrassed, or whatever is not very cool. I don't like that they let OPs do that. Really discourages you from taking the time to invest in posting if someone can capriciously delete other peoples' posts.

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                                        • MattSpellerM
                                          MattSpeller
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                                          Fiddling with my new Note5 - seems nice so far

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                                          • RojoLocoR
                                            RojoLoco @scottalanmiller
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                                            @scottalanmiller said:

                                            Just provided plenty of good advice to someone on SW and, they deleted their post after I put in that effort. That SW allowed people to delete my posts because they decide that they don't want the advice, feel embarrassed, or whatever is not very cool. I don't like that they let OPs do that. Really discourages you from taking the time to invest in posting if someone can capriciously delete other peoples' posts.

                                            That's why 99% of my contributions are pure snark. Barely worth the effort to type real help to most of the new accounts over there.

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