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Post by sperrytops on Jul 1, 2019 16:56:23 GMT -5
When a company stops producing the catalogues, it generally means employees who were putting each issue together are no longer needed, so they get fired. On top of that, there are people who are not directly paid by the company with the catalogue, but work for the printing company who lose money from their paycheck and may even get fired. Interesting to watch how economies change and drive change in demand for different jobs. We no longer need some things and needs for new things arise. Just the nature of a capitalist economy where innovation results in change. Not to diminish the value of printers, a buddy of mine spent most of his career as a printer. He saw the tides of change coming and got out of the business quite a few years back. I would imagine that's how blacksmiths felt when the automobile was introduced. That put horse breeders, blacksmiths, horseshoe and saddle manufacturers all out of jobs. But all kinds of new jobs were created. To me, catalogs are redundant. I find everything I need online. I just hate to see trees cut down for no reason. My mail is already full of a ton of junk I would prefer it would never get printed or distributed to me. |
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Post by pappyjoe on Jul 1, 2019 17:21:59 GMT -5
When a company stops producing the catalogues, it generally means employees who were putting each issue together are no longer needed, so they get fired. On top of that, there are people who are not directly paid by the company with the catalogue, but work for the printing company who lose money from their paycheck and may even get fired. Interesting to watch how economies change and drive change in demand for different jobs. We no longer need some things and needs for new things arise. Just the nature of a capitalist economy where innovation results in change. Not to diminish the value of printers, a buddy of mine spent most of his career as a printer. He saw the tides of change coming and got out of the business quite a few years back. I would imagine that's how blacksmiths felt when the automobile was introduced. That put horse breeders, blacksmiths, horseshoe and saddle manufacturers all out of jobs. But all kinds of new jobs were created. To me, catalogs are redundant. I find everything I need online. I just hate to see trees cut down for no reason. My mail is already full of a ton of junk I would prefer it would never get printed or distributed to me. You hit the problem right on its head - except for the part were all kinds of new jobs were created. I worked for a printing coming a little over 11 years as the managing editor of a hunting/fishing magazine and then as the director of the art & production department before leaving to start my own small company. I saw the industry change with the technology and while the work got easier because of computers, the workers who couldn't learn the computers were replaced. Where it used to take a staff of 4 or 5 two weeks to get the magazine on the press, at the end, I was able to do all the in-house work by myself in 4 days. By the time I left the company, the art department went from 10 full time employees down to 2. No new jobs were created. |
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