Off TopicAre you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.
(
rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
« Go Back | See The Full Thread
In the same respect, we're creating 'stuff' that are being export over seas, probably more so on a fiscal level...... but what we, in the UK, create as an export is 'service'. Taking the technology industry, it's greatest producer is south-east asia, because that is where the raw materials, and as a result, is where the best developers are. Nobody is crying over the banker who works 80 hour weeks for similar percentage of wage-to-output, because he is happy to do this job in the interim to support his lifestyle.
Through this captialism, countries such as China have become charity-possitive where as without it, they would be charity-negative... which is a good indication of a country's standing. If they didn't produce products that us westeners wanted, waste or not, then they would be in dire need of hand-outs.
(
G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:23,
2 replies,
latest was 15 years ago)
Where I believe a 'wrong' is done, is somewhere around the level of the factory owners who live in mansions where as their workers live in pure poverty (but less poverty than their unemployeed). (
G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:24,
Reply)
I can't remember where I read this, I believe it was in relation to the BBC, but they're saying that their highest earner won't earn more than 20x their lowest.I like that.
(
G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:25,
Reply)
where's that? In china?(
Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:34,
Reply)
No, I mean they're going to imploy that policy at the BBC(
G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:36,
Reply)
re. the banker - I think this is a totally differentsituation than someone who is working crappy conditions to survive/send money back to their families
re. the other bit: I'm not completely against industrialisation and capitalism, clearly they have produced some great things, but I can't see that our current situation is stable and not ultimately destructive
(
Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 19:33,
Reply)
« Go Back | See The Full Thread