02-16-2016, 10:09 AM
So how, exactly, and why, exactly, is "the nation supposed to save Hornby"? That is incredibly presumptuous of the author. Private enterprise is a risk - always has been and always will be. See any buggy whip companies still in operation? Why weren't those saved? Ridden on any White Star steamships lately? Why not? How about a ticket to Europe on an airship? No?
If there is a reasonable demand, the system will find a way to fill it, but not necessarily the same way all of the time, and certainly not the same company.
Sink or swim is the rule of economics. Somebody in a Third World nation will end up manufatiring the Hornby line of products and life ill go on, just as it has for all the other companies that used to advertise in the modeling magazines.
If there is a reasonable demand, the system will find a way to fill it, but not necessarily the same way all of the time, and certainly not the same company.
Sink or swim is the rule of economics. Somebody in a Third World nation will end up manufatiring the Hornby line of products and life ill go on, just as it has for all the other companies that used to advertise in the modeling magazines.