Shinola not so Shiny after all?

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Actually, many posters on this thread have made the point numerous times that the watches or bikes are being "assembled" and not "manufactured" in Detroit, so its a major part of the thread to others, even if it may not be to you.

The other part of the thread seems to be that its inappropriate to highlight the skill of the Detroit workers in a "marketing" campaign. I tend to think that anything that portrays Detroit in a good light, and makes people think that perhaps its a good place to do business is not a bad thing. I guess ruin porn is more to their liking. Certain posters even seem to think that training workers to do a new type of skilled assembly is a bad thing. I guess bringing a new type of enterprise to the area is not seen as desirable for some reason.

I think context is lost on you, which makes any sort of reasonable dialogue a lost cause. This is entirely related to their phony marketing. Nobody has claimed they are a bad thing outside of the context of their marketing. Quit being disingenuous.