You know, another way to look at this offshoring/quality thing is this...
It turns out "there is more money in designing a shoe than in actually making it: Nike, Dell, and Boeing can get paid for thinking while subcontracted factories in developing countries do the grunt work and engineers in cultured and mathematical states do the noncreative technical grind."
Kind of makes you wonder..... If anyone is interested, that quote is from my current reading list: The Black Swan, The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nicholas Taleb.
NPR Interview here:
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-mpm