Sadly, the answer to 1 is yes, because in third world countries, where outsourcing occurs, that dude is conscientious purely because he or she has a long line of hopeful replacements waiting to get the job he screwed up. They don’t give a ****** what they make, assemble, grow or pick. They need that job and they have to protect it.
The answer to 2 is, Once industry tastes the sweet fruits of outsourcing, they’re hooked – Like a drug. If there is a downturn in production, rest assured payment to the remaining assemblers will be in rice not pounds.
And that is the problem when confusing ‘Global Economy’ with pure ‘outsourcing’, the later of which is what is happening here. It would be different if the good folks on the board at Triumph were looking to satisfy expanded demand in a region they could not supply, i.e., North America – Much like the Japanese did. But that isn’t what’s happening here folks. Sometimes ‘outsourcing’ is a by-product or this Global Economy, just by nature of Geographic’s – but they are not, and need not be one-in-the-same. What’s happening is cheap, underhanded ‘labor pimping’, purely to save a buck. Don’t confuse the two.
The Triumph will continue to be a good product, simply by design. But, the mystique and lure of the marque will certainly be tarnished for some of us.
