Duane Strosaker wrote: >Paddlewisers, > >It may have not happened this time, but the >purchasing of kayak manufacturers by large >corporations seems to be a trend, one that I >haven't been liking. It seems that more and more >the kayak manufacturers, many of them now owned >by large corporations, are looking for only more >profits by selling mediocre designs and lay-ups >for the mass public rather than sea kayakers. > That's the way of the capitalist Duane, and the US society (are they not the same thing?) I don't know if the media is leading or following on this one, but I suspect leading. Notice how the first statistic reported about almost anything today is "how much money." Not home runs or ERA, not pounds of Pampers shipped, not how many disaster victims helped. So, when the only metric that "matters" is money, where does the focus go? What drives the decisions? Safety? Quality? Style? Only if it makes money. And if you make money, someone making more money is going to want yours. Not because they need it, because they want to improve their score, and the score is kept by ? Carey (paddling against the current, sometimes whacking it with my paddle.) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jul 23 2004 - 06:21:24 PDT
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