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I, Sharpie

https://www.commonplace.org/p/chris-griswold-i-sharpie
18•delichon•1w ago

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theamk•6d ago
it's a bad re-telling of [0] "Sharpie found a way to make pens more cheaply by manufacturing them in the U.S.", in the style of famous "I, Pencil" essay [1]. But while original text was full of interesting technical facts with a bit of politics mixed in, this imitation has no interesting technical details.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480354

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016980

Animats•2h ago
Onshoring is easier when your product has six parts.
happytoexplain•1h ago
Yes. We should still praise it.
scubbo•1h ago
Earnest question (i.e. not implying that I'm arguing for the opposite) - why?
xboxnolifes•44m ago
Because it is actually possible to lose manufacturing knowledge over time. Manufacturing things in your country now allows you to more easily manufacture different things in your country in the future. It's a lot harder to make things if your manufacturing talent is spread across multiple countries, especially so if you're making anything that cannot use already commoditized components.
happytoexplain•39m ago
The differences in economies and cultures on the international scale is a capitalism cheat code. We are morally and logically obligated to protect our citizens in all contexts. That doesn't mean "fuck everybody else". It only means prioritizing.
profsummergig•2h ago
I don't understand the appeal of Sharpies. Even if left unused, they die out in a relatively short time. The ones meant for paper are not meant to be used on whiteboards. And they don't write (flow) particularly well on either (the colored ones are particularly terrible on whiteboards).

Maybe I'm using them wrong. Happy to be corrected, and to hear your recos on better alternatives.

happytoexplain•2h ago
I'm a little confused about your reference to white boards. I didn't know that there are sharpies intended for white boards. Isn't their whole point that they're permanent?

Separately - try "super permanent" sharpies. I love them.

fragmede•7m ago
Thoroughly semi permanent if you use the sharpies to write a template, for example a tic-tac-toe board use the whiteboard markers play the game and the regular race shirt who is just the moves and you’re left with the sharpie. In order to get it off you write over the sharpie with a whiteboard marker and then eraser with a regular eraser and then it’ll go away.
tonyarkles•1h ago
I use them frequently for marking non-writing-paper things like aluminum brackets, tape labels on wires, circuit boards, spray bottles of chemicals, boxes, etc.
FridayoLeary•58m ago
I think they are the best permanent markers out there, i've never had your problems. It's odd because all the other good stationary products are japanese, french or german.
driverdan•51m ago
Jobsite permanent markers are better in every way and are the same price or cheaper.
o11c•40m ago
> Even if left unused, they die out in a relatively short time.

Out of all the markers I've ever reached for, I think I've seen every kind except Sharpie go dry.

Mistletoe•16m ago
Do you put the lid back on? I’ve had Sharpies decades old still write like new.
psidium•1h ago
So they automated most of the production in order to compete with cheap labor. It didn’t bring the manufacturing jobs as we think of them back: it did something better.
rorylawless•15m ago
This is a nice allegory that hits on a few of the key tensions we're seeing at the moment.

The social and economic order is in constant flux, however, there has been tendency to totalize one preference over the alternatives. The abuse of the "invisible hand" metaphor is one way we see this, being used, as it is, to wave away the 50-year trend of increasing selfishness, moving away from seeing the economy as a potential welfare maximizing technology.

We're in a period in which the massive transfer of wealth to a few people is accepted as inevitable and should be pursued at any and all costs. The original post highlights that (individual and collective) human agency remains, people can make the choice to do things differently.

saoh•7m ago
Brand-name Sharpie markers cost around US $1 to US $1.50 per marker.

Budget or generic alternatives cost as low as US $0.20 to US $0.50 per marker.

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