Of course you are right, its more profitable to be able to assign a persons value, and extract all the money, and we call that trickle down economics, (supply, and demand) and only works if you are at the top. A flawed business model that takes the worst characteristics of slavery and applies them to a population. They replaced chains and whips with money, but they don't discriminate according to race. White people make as good a slaves as black people.Quote:
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Well Tal you won't get employers signing on to more people working less hours, what they want is less people working more hours. Computers have made some more productive usually at the expense of lower end jobs.
Agreed, CEO"s should make the same as garbage men, it's the reason we formed a country, All men are created equal. Now the application to that principle is still a work in progress. You can take the slaves from the master, but no way does the master give up his slaves.Quote:
So you think we should all be tech jocks but then no one wants to do the other work, so you have to be selective about who you train and for what. I know it's not democratic but it isn't a perfect world, there are some who have to be s**t kickers, even if you call them sanitary engineers but if we pay well for meniel tasks then more will want to do them, sort of turns the ideas around, instead of paying CEOs millions we should pay them no more that the lowest paid in their organisation. We would see a lot of better paid jobs very quickly and a very selective selection process. No dills allowed
Naw, American businesses looked at China and said oh boy look at all that cheap labor, and future customers, and off they went ZOOOOOOM! Sure they will have more millionaires just because they have more people, but their master/slave mentality will crash in on them too, because while it's a huge economy, they rely on exports from cheap labor also, and so enslave themselves to others to survive. Namely American business men. When the labor is no longer cheap, they will find that they, like us now, have been ROBBED.Quote:
What your society did was create the situation in China, you exported all the meniel tasks and expected to keep all the high paid interesting jobs. It didn't work because other people are smart too. The Chinese were smart, they got the work and used it to transform their economy,
American business men will always extract the money for themselves, and without them, China cannot grow, and would be just a BIG poor nation like it is now.
And by the way, we may have taken the manufacturing jobs to China (AND other countries to be sure, even to your island), and some will get rich, but we still have some VERY interesting jobs here for the next generation. Like going to MARS!! Hehehe!
They are already doing that, but until they have a robust middle class, and do away with slave master mentality, they are screwed, no matter how they manipulaate their economy.Quote:
Soon there will be more chinese millionaires than there are in the US and they will be looking for someone to do the low end work
And India, Indonesia, and yes, Australia. Once they all set some new standards for the value of their citizens and restructure the business model. That applies to us too, just so you know.Quote:
Keep your eye on Africa.