Looking this tool over I am struck with the way that it's being marketed...on price. "If you don't want to spend the big bucks on the CXS then go with the Milwaukee."
What an insult!
The Milwaukee is made in China by workers making pennies and lacking tax payer funded, world class, universal, not-for-profit healthcare; lacking union protection; lacking multiple months of paid time off per year; lacking free childcare, lacking...all of the other perks one gets when living and working in Germany. Meanwhile, the CXS, at $300 for the full kit (which, don't forget, comes with a SYS 1 - a ~$60 value), looks like a bargain in comparison.
I'd rather jump off a bridge then hand over my hard earned cash to an unethical and unscrupulous company like Milwaukee (which sold out U.S. workers decades ago), especially when they have the gall to charge a premium price for a tool that no doubt cost them much less to make then the CXS costs Festool to make. A huge chunk of that extra profit goes right into the pockets of the fat cats that sit at the top of the company. Meanwhile, workers get the shaft.
The Milwaukee copy should sell for $100. Then, at least, I wouldn't feel insulted.
It's truly criminal how these transnational companies think they can exploit workers and environments in far off despotic countries (like China) but even worse are consumers who lap it all up.
I'll stick with my German-made CXS thank you very much.
