what happened to taking pride in your work

ol Bombero-JC wrote:
This thread *WAS* about quality of RVs.....now it's gone over to efficiency of various engines.

Engines are discussed because 1) everybody uses them , 2) it demonstrates why other products (not just RVs) have low quality, and 3) demonstrates how many will even deny what has been well understood and proven decades ago. And still some refuse to learn from these historical trends.

Water in Flint MI is a same problem created by the same "low quality is good" mentality. American steel is another example of why Americans lost jobs because steel industry management used spread sheet analysis to stifle innovation. To even enrich top management by destroying jobs.

Cited was another example of how to create low quality - use quality control inspectors. Topic was never about engines. Topic was always about why low quality exists.

V-8 engines are another example of why low quality exists. No half ton or one ton truck needs a V-8. Why do so many have these low performance engines? Difficult is to get those consumers to learn. So many are entrenched in obsolete technologies.

America prospers because and when so many others want innovation. Those consumers make America great. They don't buy American. Being patriotic, they believe in the antonym - the free market - buy the best. Therefore promote innovation and advance America.

Why do Japanese so honor an American named Deming? He taught Japan how to innovate. He bluntly cited reasons for low quality, job destruction, and obsolete technologies. How many Americans are still so poorly educated as to not even know who Deming is and what he taught? Why do some American auto companies still sell obsolete V-8 engines? They were cited by Deming for job losses, low quality products, higher costs, and loss of markets. American auto companies, whose purpose was to enrich top management, hated Deming, blamed employees, stifled a 70 Hp per liter engine (a 1972 innovation) for longer than most readers have existed, and are still highly praised by Americans who want obsolete technologies. In part, because advertising and spin (not knowledge) tells them to praise obsolete technologies - and resulting low quality products.

V-8 engines are discussed because obsolete technologies exist for the same reasons that low quality and inferior products exist. Include so many who still deny. Water in Flint MI exists for exact same reasons.