On Dec 22, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Tom C wrote: > > I've been saying it for a long time (as I'm affected every day by > either outsourced or on-shored technical workers). When the majority > of the population is working at McDonald's or Walmart, who will be > making the money to buy the SUV's and flat-screen TV's? > > I'm not sure it's a matter of mindset, per se for those workers, but I > generally agree. It's more that their county's labor markets have been > handed hundreds of thousands of jobs that would have formerly been > held by native citizens because their labor can be had at a far > cheaper price. Hence thousands of qualified, but many more > under-qualified and nominally-qualified workers get the jobs because > all corporations can see is the immediate reduction in labor costs, > not the fact that they'll have to do the job three times to get it > done right, or that they've created a whole class of > un-/under-employed people in their own backyard. It's basically > business and political leaders pulling the rug out from under it's > citizens to increase stockholder wealth, plain and simple. I won't > vouch for all the claims made on this website but I believe it's > basically correct: > > http://www.zazona.com/shameh1b/ > > Communism collapsed under the weight of it's own inefficiency and lack > of moral legitimacy. It's leaders acquired and maintained power and > wealth through fear, and control. > > Capitalism appears to be imploding because it's leaders (business and > political) are more interested in acquiring and maintaining power and > wealth for themselves than in seeing to it that the average person has > the means to make a decent living and provide for their families. It's > quickly losing it's moral legitimacy as well. When capitalism finally > devours the citizens it's built upon, it will be dead. > > Put another way, when inflated self-interest turns into blatant > disinterest in the welfare of others the system becomes strained, and > historically breaks. > > But I digress, this was about Kodak. > > Tom C. >
Well said, Tom C. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
