Dennis
I assume then that you will put a cut in money where your mouth is, and ask your employer for a cut in pay, fewer benefits, and longer hours?
Surely you want him to be competitive - and you want your job to continue - so you need to think ahead and ask for less and less from him for more and more from you, until he's giving you his nothing for your everything.
It's how to keep a job in today's fast-paced capitalist economy.
Well, actually David, that's exactly how it works in the real world. If competitive pressures or market forces require the company to cut prices, they cut costs. This can mean cuts in pay or cuts in jobs. People who don't operate in the phoney world of taxpayer-subsidized jobs have always known that and live with it. We don't expect the taxpayers to bail us out, or have the luxury of having our employer simply raise prices (or tuition) just so we can keep two cars in the garage. We just cinch up our pants and move on. After 9-11 when most businesses decided to cacoon it for a while, my fees went from $125/hr, to $100, to $75, to $50. Why is it for example, that even during a recession, colleges increase tuition and medical costs continue to rise? Because they're subsidized by the government, that's why. Why doesn't someone ever say to the university, for example, "hey, times are tough, why don't you guys cut tuition the way businesses cut prices?" Because they don't have to. As long as Pell grants and state aid keeps increasing, there's no need for the university to cut prices. It's this isolation from the real world why most people ignore or have no sympathy for the whining bureaucrats who are insolated from the marketplace.
Dennis Tester Mac-Groveland
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