Re: A story (true or not)

[Thomas Lunde]

Title: Re: A story (true or not)

Just remember that everyone prefers to cut costs - including you,

Harry


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Harry Pollard
Henry George School of LA
Box 655
Tujunga  CA  91042
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Thomas:

There is an alternative.  Raise wages!  For the working person, it is only take home pay that counts.  If the wages stay the same and costs keep increasing, then the net effect is the loss of income and lifestyle.  Business has tried to promise the working person by implying that if we allow them free competitive reign they will lower prices so we can have more goods - and there has been a lot of truth in that assumption - in many cases lower costs have made a working man's paycheck buy more.  But costs cannot be cut indefinetly, there is a place where cost cutting leads to lower quality and more planned obeslence which means that savings from quality and durability are lost.  It would be better to build a car that was easy to repair and upgrade and had a life span of 20 or 30 years, rather than 10.

Respectfully,

Thomas Lunde