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Thread: minimum wage $9 lulz
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02-12-2013, 06:52 PM #1
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02-12-2013, 07:05 PM #7
$15.96 per hour
http://www.fairwork.gov.au/resources...act-sheet.aspx"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
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02-12-2013, 07:10 PM #8
US can't compete with China and some of the other Asian countries in labor costs whether at $7 or $9.
The hope is the infrastructure of the manufacturing companies is advanced enough (robots, lowered energy costs) that even with higher wages to supervise the machinery, it will be cheaper than bringing goods in from Asia.Gators/Heat/Dolphins/Panthers/Marlins/Barcelona&Steaua
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02-12-2013, 07:11 PM #9
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02-12-2013, 07:18 PM #17
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02-12-2013, 07:18 PM #18
As someone who works in manufacturing, hopefully, not for long. Sure, let them have the easy ****, but if companies continue to invest in highly automated manufacturing system in the US, it will be cheaper to produce and distribute more advanced goods straight from here. Shipping costs trans-ocean are huge, and there's this small issue of Chinese companies stealing designs (actually, in many cases, given).
Edit: It's also not just labor costs that make Chinese goods cheaper. They subsidize their domestic companies. We have to go through Chinese partners to acquire goods, because those bastards try to charge us twice or three times as much for the same damn components.Last edited by Gator286; 02-12-2013 at 07:27 PM.
Gators/Heat/Dolphins/Panthers/Marlins/Barcelona&Steaua
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02-12-2013, 07:19 PM #19
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02-12-2013, 07:22 PM #22'On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White' - Rochelle Gutierrez, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois.
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02-12-2013, 07:27 PM #23
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02-12-2013, 07:33 PM #26
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Capitalism doesn't restrict anything, it's the government which creates the barriers to entry through onerous laws and regulations, many of which are written by the corporations and given to politicians to pass by the way. By the way, a system in which the government doles out favors to a a select few corporations at the expense of others isn't Capitalism, it's a Mercantilism. And Capitalism was actually originated as an attack on Mercantilism.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. -C.S. Lewis
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02-12-2013, 07:33 PM #27
That's not a valuble skill. Anyone can do that. You can even train monkeys to do that.
Don't allow billion dollar corporations to pull the strings of the government.
Wish we were more free-market. The government's welfare programs are horrendous. There are many transparent, private charities I would rather give my money to.Member of NRA, GOA, SAF, TSRA, and CCRKBA (U.S. gun lobbies). Also a member of the Libertarian Party and Schiff Premium.
Agnostic atheist/Minarchist ftw.
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02-12-2013, 07:34 PM #28
its not about how much. Birdy said capitalism rewards hard work. A career doorman regardless of hard work will have a small chance at an interview when his résumé says 2000-present opening doors, signing for mail. Capitalism reward some and screws other regardless of effort. And for the record I 100% support capitalism but lets not make it out to be a saint when it's not. You can't have capitalism without someone getting the shaft, so because of people getting the shaft we have all the social programs to fill the cap, aka the American welfare state is the by product of people getting the shaft in a capitalist economy
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