There are train shows that there are assigned representatives or perhaps the entire company may transport, set up and display a table or booth for show visitors.
To me that is more than satisfactory.
Demanding that a XZY Choo choo maker participate in very local events like a little leaque ballpark team or something is really beyond the realm of profits and loss availible to a typical model maker.
Keep in mind that China is a rising superpower. She is experiencing what we experienced in the 1950’s economically and is displaying clout, strength and determination to cement everything on that part of the world for the next 3000 years. We think in 4 year terms while they see 100-200 years ahead.
Eventually China will probably match the United States in economic living and pay the factory workers just as much if not more than our USA workers. She has already allowed her “Money” to fall to a exchange rate that favors China versus the US Dollar and that situation will probably slowly continue to deteriote. Keep in mind it aint the boiling hot water that catches the frog… it’s the slowly rising comfortable warm pot that eventually poaches that frog.
Then our USA Companies that exported products to China to be produced cheaply will find themselves back to square one and MUST NOW find another poor third world nation… to send thier cheap american products to be built.
At the end of the day everyone charges the same for the choo choo in any scale. The USA manufactors will have nothing here at home left to do anything when the world’s system exceeds our ability to buy 20 dollar toasters in walmart.
Those 200 dollar imported engines are nice today. But sooner or later they will become either unavailible because China quit making such toys and decided to take care of thier own folks who might want different things and no factories here in the USA to keep producing these engines.
Maybe they will be generous to build factories HERE and
I never said they weren’t doing enough - You read that into my post. However, I think when a company is doing well, that company should support their local community in some way; chamber of commerce, sponsioring a local team, job training for high school students.
The bottom line is that it’s really not a big deal. I’m a business owner; we support local high schools. Some buisnesses in our complex do support the community some don’t. That’s a personal decision based on your bottom line and what you feel obligated to do. I guess I’m just feeling sort of concerned about the future of the US, our economic strenght, etc. and it came out with an odd post about community support.
I used to work for a television station that would give $50 a month to the community to charities etc. The owner has 4 TV stations and grosses about 30 million dollars a year between the 4. I don’t know what his profit margin is. Gee…50 bucks a month whoopee.