If you can’t produce significantly more than a “Third Worlder pennies per day” person then why should you be paid more? We are no longer an island that can hide from the world. Either we compete with the world or the world moves on without us.
What are you going to do when robots do most of the manual labor? Ban robots? Because that day is coming quickly.
The bottom line is government is the anchor holding us down. Endless regulation, taxes and “fees” redistributing our work productivity to a near majority who vote and don’t contribute to the wealth of the country. Either we throw off the yoke around our necks or we go broke.
When Americans are free we lead the world in innovation. We haven’t been free for some time now and it shows.
When they transfer your means of living to Asians maybe you’ll feel differently; I’m not afraid of a better Asian worker taking my job, but know that many companies are quite willing to hire WORSE Asian workers to save money.
Haven’t you noticed the general decline in workmanship throughout this country over the past decade (in just about every field/position)? Do you think it is coincidence that it is accompanied by a huge rise in the number of foreigners you’re dealing with for said work? American workers that were experienced and talented have been tossed aside for cheaper coolie labor; if companies can pay someone who knows 50% of the work only 25% of the pay, then you end up where we are now.
Robots aren’t “coming”; they are here. While they can do many things, they face constraints (and require large investment of capital).
We can vote against the Marxist Free trading Income Tax lovers like you. I am standing up the radical Free Traitor gloBULLIst thugs where ever I find them.
There you have someone. "Free" trade deals permit American manufacturers to engage in environmental arbitrage. What this country forbids is permitted overseas. Aside from favorable wages, U.S. government regulators are frozen out of the manufacturing process taking business process back over a century, but with the advantage of modern equipment.
Because you are part of our nation, and Third Worlders are not.
Either we compete with the world or the world moves on without us.
Yes. They do. Kinshasa and Port au Prince are a much more probable scenario with your preferences that Zurich and Dusseldorf.