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Originally Posted by Old Dood
Now who's FAULT is that?
These company's profits or lack there of?
Is that the workers's fault? Or was it the companies over playing their greedy little hands?
The workers did not set up this economy.
They are a part of it and it does take TWO to Tango.
However, it was not the workers that thought of exploting other countries for their low wages.
It was the Companies that did this.
They were not happy enough with the profits they had they just all had to meddle in other country's affairs.
This is capitalism (Corporatism) at it's worst and now the companies want to blame everyone else but themselves.
Our Standard of Living has been dropping in this country.
This is not the 'Worker's Fault'.
This is a planned event for a long time coming.
Get out and READ for a change instead of simply blaming the lowest people on the ladder.
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Now, don't go blaming everybody but yourself (I read THAT somewhere). Sure, management gets greedy, but don't go claiming sainthood so fast. There's plenty of greed to go around! You may attribute everything purely to "the company", but the workers demands are indeed PART of the cause. As you said, it takes two to tango.
Any company, even down to the small mom and pop operations, have to exist in the market. If the employees demand higher wages than the competitors, the owner will HAVE to look elsewhere, or go out of business.
The only way to EARN more wages, is to be of more value. That has generally been done through increasing productivity. That can be through learning to do your job better. But any job where the primary function is physical, there is an upper limit how good you can do the same job. At that point, perhaps automation may improve productivity. Either way, once you hit that dead end, you will then need a new job, a new skill, to increase your value. You can't expect to do the same thing forever, and expect the value of that job to increase. Somehow, somewhere (could be "foreign", could be right here, just down the road) that productivity increase will happen. If your company is contractually obligated to continue paying more for that, then they are LOSING that money. As their competitor can sell their product at a better price. And no, it isn't always some "foreign" company either.
And if this "planned event" was so obvious to you, then I would assume that you would get out of such a dead end position, and train for a more "valuable" job before you ARE out on the street.