Originally Posted by
jimicrk
That things are not the same in other countries as they are in the USA.
See ... that's the thing. It's really not all that different when you break down artificial trade barriers. It all evens out. Our wages drop and theirs go up until an equilibrium is established.
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That's not really the point though. You know how you were saying before about how we need to change and adapt to the changing world around us. You hit that straight on man.
Here's the thing ... in order to know where we need to go ... we need to look back and see where we've been. Look at the growth and evolution of the scrapping industry.
In the first video we have a guy using brute force. That's back breaking work and very labor intensive. It's sloooow going. That's a hard life.
In the second video we have a guy that seems to be a little better off. He's a human working with a machine. With the right tool ... his production is way up.
So ... along those lines ... what is the next step in the evolution of scrapping likely to look like ?
The machine replaces the man ! Production is WAY up. Maybe a thousand times faster ? Production costs (
scrap prices ) drop to a fraction of what they are now and the guy that owns the machine is still making money hand over fist.
Most likely, that will be a shredder set up to process the sealed units into #2 copper and steel.
It would seem that the future is near at hand. We may go the way of the Rag N Bone man of the early 1900's.
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