Maybe they should get more competitive?
Quote: Maybe they should get more competitive?
Americans are the most competitive and productive worker in the world except when it comes to being copettive to 88 cent per hour jobs.
Glad you always stick up for america and it's workers ...NOT!!
Glad to see that you are going to do even more shopping at WM. Are you even American?? I've never seen one of your replies that sticks up for americans or our way of life.
They can't get more competitive when they have to meet all the government shackles like OSHA and FICA and all the rest. Not to mention health care and minimum wage etc, etc. There's just too much built in overhead. Did I mention liability and malpractice?
You just can't compete with a system that is willing to pay the peasants a couple of bucks an hour, and if they get a small apartment, enough to eat, and enough money to catch a bus to a movie a couple of times a year, hey, it's a lot better than their parents had it. If they save very carefully they can even scrape up enough to buy a car these days.
Maybe they should get more competitive?
They need to lower their wages down to the world price of labor, and the rate for chinese peasants is about right. Also, they have to withdraw from the social security system, since that is an extra fixed cost that employers would have to pay if they hired an american instead of a chinese.
I think if american workers adopted these few simple items, lower wages, withdraw from social security, give up vacations, holidays, and medical benefits, they would have a chance to be competitive with chinese laborers.
BTW are you saying engineers should be making 10$ an hour?