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Sorry for your loss of faith gingerbreadman, but you have fallen prey to the disease of our age that is even more virulent than the “entitlement mentality” and that is the “everything is in the crapper and its the government that’s the problem mentality.” It starts when you spend more time watching TV (mostly FOX News) than actually being engaged in your community – and not just a few like minded friends! Clearly it wasn’t today’s technology lasting that long – no matter what the care or repair. People were eking out a living, repairing and nursing along pre-blow-up technology to keep themselves going. They used to have stories set a decades or centuries after the big blow-up. This make me think back to 1970’s post-apocolyptic science fiction.
I’d love to be proven wrong – at an affordable price – I’m willing to pay more for better, but there are limits, especially with 2 in college. I fear I’ve become jaded, and don’t believe good old well-built stuff exists, any more. I wish I could find a way to get something decent around here. Since the expensive junk isn’t significantly better than the cheap junk, you just buy the cheap junk and replace it when it goes bad. From what I can tell, these days you can buy cheap junk, or you can buy expensive junk – but it’s all junk. But there’s another consideration… Every now and then I’ve tried paying more, hoping to get better quality, and I haven’t. > But Americans are less & less willing (and able I suppose nowadays) to pay for quality. Oh well, sorry for the rant, and the detour… I applaud people like Gus, but the American middle class is being sold out by big business to a large extent. Most American tech workers cannot compete with Indians on price due to COST OF LIVING - it’s not a technical barrier – most Indians are still bumbling idiots when it comes to development – but when they’re 1/10th the price due to the cost of living, an American can’t suddenly slash his cost of living by 90%. Why go to the trouble of innovating (again, I’m talking tech here, I don’t know as much about parrots or jerky) if someone overseas will simply copy your idea & undercut you on price? Which crushes the spirit of some of the best minds I know here in the US. Chinese-manufactured goods falls apart in one’s hands or are made with lead-based paints, etc… But Americans are less & less willing (and able I suppose nowadays) to pay for quality. I’m in the tech sector, and I can tell you (again, not to start a holy war, but…), the American companies that look to India & China for slave labor & inferior quality are a huge contributor to the “race to the bottom”.
but when you say “our society has lost the ability to come up with innovation” I think it’s only partially true…. I agree to a large extent with you here GBM…. We could make our own declarations of indendence by coming up with our own something good to sell.
And in the current recession, as more jobs are lost and people become desperate for work, more of us should try channeling our internal Gus. But he’s the guy selling $2 million per year online from a quarter acre beside the highway outside Kingman, Arizona, and we aren’t. There is nothing Gus does that any of us couldn’t do as well - nothing. This is, in a way, a story similar to Parrot Secrets, which caused such a furor in this space a few months ago. The recession has had no significant impact yet on Freshjerky sales, according to Gus. So how is the company doing? Just fine, thanks, though most of the sales are online - about $2 million per year. And from one look at Gus, handing out tiny bites of cowboy jerky to lure customers, they aren’t drawn by his innate sex appeal. I found it hard to believe at first that people would really be drawn to such a place (Mary Alyce is the jerky fan in our family). That’s why God invented truck stops.īut Freshjerky is a terrific example of American enterprise and how easy it can be to find a niche in our enormous and varied consumer economy. Nobody goes to Freshjerky, for example, to buy cheap jerky. Everything is very good for what it is and nothing is particularly cheap. Just as the sign says, Freshjerky has a limited product selection - various kinds of meat jerky including buffalo honey (minus “expanders,” whatever those are) olives nuts, and cold drinks. And that’s Mary Alyce taking pictures of the boys in the Freshjerky parking lot at left. Headed this week to the Grand Canyon in our old Winnebago RV (now minus mice, we think) Mary Alyce, the boys and I stopped outside Kingman, Arizona at this place,, managed by Gus, whom you’ll find pictured below, handsome devil that he is.
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