Socialism wins again - Detroit goes Bankrupt!

[Adak]

Originally Posted by glatt

Read any tw post about why Detroit failed. It's because American cars sucked for way too long compared to the Japanese. The jobs left, and so did many of the people. No people, no tax revenue.

But you want to blame it on the cops and firefighters because that fits your narrative. Too bad, because you were thinking very clearly in a lot of your recent posts on other topics.

American car makers laughed at the ideas of quality control espoused by William Deming, while the Japanese embraced them whole heartedly, and spent millions implementing them into their factories and plants.

Later, it became apparent that quality control was the only way to go for the US car companies, but the unions resisted many of the changes needed. Also, through a series of crippling strikes, the unions removed a lot of value (money) from the car makers, making it impossible to fully implement the changes needed, to stop the slump the car makers were in.

The big 3 car makers had a management problem, no doubt about that, but the unions were a very powerful force also, at that time.