China; because they turf people from ancestral homes and coerce them to factories for a life of economic slavery and eventual ill health due to pollution and an early death. Note, the workers do not necessarily have a 'better' life. I'm sure their stress levels are increasing dramatically as well. It is the management (usually relatives of the factory owners) that have the 'newfound' gains in wealth and buying power.
Darryl On 12/13/2010 6:25 AM, Arthur Cordell wrote: > It's the continuing hollowing out of the economy. I wonder who is buying > this equipment and where it will be used. > > arthur > > ................... > While I'm here... > > For the last several years, the Saturday Globe& Mail's commercial > auction ads have run heavy to machine shops, tool& die makers, metal > fab shops, precision parts makers and the like. This category > represents the infrastructure that supports the rest of industry and > is the place where essential skills live and breed. I don't know if > Canada (chiefly Ontario) is losing several dozen shops of this kind > every year or if hope springs eternal among entrpreneurs who start and > then fail in these kinds of operations. > > - Mike > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
