Robert not Bobby
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Post by Robert not Bobby on Oct 31, 2015 12:49:59 GMT -5
Sorry DJ, I'm in and out...(this Halloween thing to get ready for) what was your question, and I will try to answer it according to my best lights.
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fishy999
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Post by fishy999 on Nov 1, 2015 15:15:23 GMT -5
I would say $15...and people freak out and tell me that they would have to pay more for their hamburger and fries. In many ways the global economy has enriched us (Apple makes almost all of its products in China, for what I would consider slave labor) and we get our iPhones at rock bottom prices...but still? Where have all the solid, unionized $40-60k jobs gone? Are we on a race to the bottom? simply put- yes. the question now is- who is to stop it? certainly not unions. they have been decimated by a half century of destructive policies. It will stop one way or another-it always does. You either run out of labor to exploit and wages come up, or you run out of customers because nobody can afford to buy your products. It is the Henry Ford deal- if you do not pay the workers enough to purchase the products they make then you shoot yourself in the foot. If I were in the donor class in the USA I would be voting to put a halt on the inequality- because the last thing you want in a country with more guns than people is class warfare. Remember back in the old days- kidnapping rich people was a very lucrative business
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djAdvocate
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Post by djAdvocate on Nov 1, 2015 16:08:12 GMT -5
simply put- yes. the question now is- who is to stop it? certainly not unions. they have been decimated by a half century of destructive policies. It will stop one way or another-it always does. You either run out of labor to exploit and wages come up, or you run out of customers because nobody can afford to buy your products. It is the Henry Ford deal- if you do not pay the workers enough to purchase the products they make then you shoot yourself in the foot. If I were in the donor class in the USA I would be voting to put a halt on the inequality- because the last thing you want in a country with more guns than people is class warfare. Remember back in the old days- kidnapping rich people was a very lucrative business when i read stuff like this, i think of Indonesia, where Nike runs sweat shops paying 1/3 of poverty wages, and the people are utterly powerless to change it.
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zibazinski
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Post by zibazinski on Nov 1, 2015 16:15:18 GMT -5
I don't buy Nike
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