On 1/25/2013 5:48 PM, Daniel Fussell wrote: > I'd have to say that the public policy environment is most likely the > problem. Otherwise, we'd have never started off-shoring things in the > first place. It's cheaper to let somebody else somewhere else do the > production than deal with the lawyering, and bureaucratic pontificating > about the color of one's carbon footprint, and the smell of the minimum > wage and benefits packages.
When I was in college years ago there was a PBS series that I seldom missed (no time for other TV) called "Free to Choose" by Milton Friedman. The first episode shows how the job market used to work in Hong Kong and how people will work under difficult circumstances by choice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Gppi-O3a8 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
