RE: Driven: Jaguar XJ Supersport Speed Pack
Discussion
toppstuff said:
How?
The French still manage it ( just ) but they are socialists and most of their big companies rely on Government support ( i.e they are kind of pseudo-semi-nationalised, tax payer funded).
Where do we find the tens of billions necessary to do this? The family silver was sold off decades ago.
IP, tech, design and licensing is our future, together with high end manufacture. Take a firm like ARM in Cambridge for example. British, it designs the chips that sit inside every shiny Apple gadget in the world. They take a royalty, but they don't make them.
Bashing metal and making big things like ships is tough because we pay our workers a sensible wage linked to living costs here. Korean workers work for less.
So, I repeat the question. How do we get to build big things again in large volumes ? How is it paid for?
Well, if our people owned the money printing machines, like obviously should be the case in our own country, then it is nothing more than paper. The French still manage it ( just ) but they are socialists and most of their big companies rely on Government support ( i.e they are kind of pseudo-semi-nationalised, tax payer funded).
Where do we find the tens of billions necessary to do this? The family silver was sold off decades ago.
IP, tech, design and licensing is our future, together with high end manufacture. Take a firm like ARM in Cambridge for example. British, it designs the chips that sit inside every shiny Apple gadget in the world. They take a royalty, but they don't make them.
Bashing metal and making big things like ships is tough because we pay our workers a sensible wage linked to living costs here. Korean workers work for less.
So, I repeat the question. How do we get to build big things again in large volumes ? How is it paid for?
All that then matters is we have the people, and we do.
FrankyH said:
Well, if our people owned the money printing machines, like obviously should be the case in our own country, then it is nothing more than paper.
All that then matters is we have the people, and we do.
That has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read...All that then matters is we have the people, and we do.
... and I've read all of FrankyH's posts.
FrankyH said:
toppstuff said:
How?
The French still manage it ( just ) but they are socialists and most of their big companies rely on Government support ( i.e they are kind of pseudo-semi-nationalised, tax payer funded).
Where do we find the tens of billions necessary to do this? The family silver was sold off decades ago.
IP, tech, design and licensing is our future, together with high end manufacture. Take a firm like ARM in Cambridge for example. British, it designs the chips that sit inside every shiny Apple gadget in the world. They take a royalty, but they don't make them.
Bashing metal and making big things like ships is tough because we pay our workers a sensible wage linked to living costs here. Korean workers work for less.
So, I repeat the question. How do we get to build big things again in large volumes ? How is it paid for?
Well, if our people owned the money printing machines, like obviously should be the case in our own country, then it is nothing more than paper. The French still manage it ( just ) but they are socialists and most of their big companies rely on Government support ( i.e they are kind of pseudo-semi-nationalised, tax payer funded).
Where do we find the tens of billions necessary to do this? The family silver was sold off decades ago.
IP, tech, design and licensing is our future, together with high end manufacture. Take a firm like ARM in Cambridge for example. British, it designs the chips that sit inside every shiny Apple gadget in the world. They take a royalty, but they don't make them.
Bashing metal and making big things like ships is tough because we pay our workers a sensible wage linked to living costs here. Korean workers work for less.
So, I repeat the question. How do we get to build big things again in large volumes ? How is it paid for?
All that then matters is we have the people, and we do.
d.DJRC said:
FrankyH said:
toppstuff said:
How?
The French still manage it ( just ) but they are socialists and most of their big companies rely on Government support ( i.e they are kind of pseudo-semi-nationalised, tax payer funded).
Where do we find the tens of billions necessary to do this? The family silver was sold off decades ago.
IP, tech, design and licensing is our future, together with high end manufacture. Take a firm like ARM in Cambridge for example. British, it designs the chips that sit inside every shiny Apple gadget in the world. They take a royalty, but they don't make them.
Bashing metal and making big things like ships is tough because we pay our workers a sensible wage linked to living costs here. Korean workers work for less.
So, I repeat the question. How do we get to build big things again in large volumes ? How is it paid for?
Well, if our people owned the money printing machines, like obviously should be the case in our own country, then it is nothing more than paper. The French still manage it ( just ) but they are socialists and most of their big companies rely on Government support ( i.e they are kind of pseudo-semi-nationalised, tax payer funded).
Where do we find the tens of billions necessary to do this? The family silver was sold off decades ago.
IP, tech, design and licensing is our future, together with high end manufacture. Take a firm like ARM in Cambridge for example. British, it designs the chips that sit inside every shiny Apple gadget in the world. They take a royalty, but they don't make them.
Bashing metal and making big things like ships is tough because we pay our workers a sensible wage linked to living costs here. Korean workers work for less.
So, I repeat the question. How do we get to build big things again in large volumes ? How is it paid for?
All that then matters is we have the people, and we do.
d.
By the way, when I say the money printing machines should be in our peoples' hands, I mean as in our people, British people, not as in the everyday man, in his house.
Edited to add. By the way, this would also free us of national debt as we could print the money ourselves, free of interest.
Edited to add. By the way, this would also free us of national debt as we could print the money ourselves, free of interest.
Edited by FrankyH on Wednesday 16th May 17:41
FrankyH said:
MonkeyMatt said:
FrankyH said:
I wouldn't be too patriotic about Jaguar, they're Indian owned.
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though when it is "patriotic" to give money to Indians.
drivin_me_nuts said:
You, with this one post you come across as a complete inbecile. At this moment in time, we need this emerging economy a lot more than they need us... and read up a little about this nation and India's shared history. It's a rather interesting almost symbiotic relationship.
We don't need them at all in fact.
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