RE: You Could Always Work at Wendy's RE: Free Trade Benefits Everyone Re: *DO* we share a civilization?

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

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> Van: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 3:16 AM
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: Re: You Could Always Work at Wendy's RE: Free 
> Trade Benefits Everyone Re: *DO* we share a civilization?

> >Wrong choice of words: I meant "recession" -- and since the rest of
> >the world has had those a few times in the last 60+ years, I see no
> >reason to assume those recessions didn't hit the US too. During such
> >a time, it would be quite hard to find a job.
> 
> There is a difference between not being able to find a job, and not
> being able to find the job that you want.

Example from real life: at one point during the recession we went through in
the early '90s, I was unemployed for well over a year. Do you think I didn't
*try* to find a job -- even one I wasn't trained for? Do you think I didn't
*try* to change that very unpleasant situation of having to live off 70% of
minimum wage?

FYI: Back then, 70% of mimimum wage meant a net income of ~NLG 1,200. With
fixed costs such as rent, utility bills and insurances amounting to almost
NLG 900 per month, there wasn't much money left for basic needs such as food
and clothing, let alone for luxury goods such as books or computer games. It
took all my bookkeeping skills to make ends meet. I can assure you that many
people in that situation do *not* manage to make ends meet -- they end up
sinking deeper into debt every month.


> >BTW, your blanket statement "low education employees are notoriously 
> >unreliable" is an insult to a very large group of people.
> 
> It also happens to be true.   So, is something still an insult, even
> if it is true?

If it is true, I wouldn't consider it an insult. The keyword here however is
the word "if". There are millions of low education employees in the US
alone, and millions more in the rest of the world. Can you provide the data
to prove that all those millions of people (or at least many of them, say
80%) are unreliable?


Jeroen

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