Up To 40% Of Chinese Solar Panels For Domestic Consumption Fail To Meet Output Specifications

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4. I guess, it's a deeper psychological phenomenon, an unwanted side-effect.

1. There was the same problem in the communist nations of Europe: The workers didn't care about the quality of the products because they had no emotional connection to the product. "Why should I sort the plastic-threads out of the hay? It's not my cow, it's everybody's cow. Let somebody else do this."

2. A few decades ago, a scientist found out that horses pull less hard on the carriage (individually) the more horses there are. 5 horses together pull as hard as 5 individual horses. But 10 horses together pull less hard than 10 individual horses.



"Why should I do more than the minimum, when there are so many others?"

The chinese empire was a monolithic, bureaucratic top-down state that existed for two millenia. And it transitioned into a monolithic, bureaucratic top-down state. The chinese people have never known another culture.