Back to the future work-wise















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  1. I lived in Korea and China. I’m American, from Boston.

    I saw things like this:

    A subway line with over 40 stops built in 2 years, through the most expensive and densely populated parts of Seoul. In the West, nowhere could this be done; it was done under budget in Korea. Korea has western-style labor laws.

    That was just one feat of human engineering.

    They actually work in Asia. As in, work hard. They sacrifice families and every aspect of their lives for work.

    It’s the 19th century. Unfortunately, they also represent a much cheaper, a more reliable and a better employee and labor force than anything the West can manage. Even Germany has to import willing wage-slaves to perform the work lazy Germans don’t want to do.

    I’m not advocating a return to the 19th century, but there is a reality that will slap us all in the face unless we deal with it:

    Other countries word harder, longer hours, smarter, and better. There’s no discussion of “rights”. They’re more efficient and productive.

    Should you wish to complain, complain to history.

    being married to left-leaning rights-based labor practices will only blind you to the harsh reality that faces us.

    When China wants to take over an industry, they depress wages, cut every piece of red tape, make cheap investment funds available, and turn whole counties or provinces over to the production of one good. There’s no way for any laissez-faire, lefty-collectivist worker’s rights liberal society to compete.

    China may seem socialist: BUt it’s not. It’s a form of brutal, extreme state-driven capitalism with few to no worker’s rights.

    You can advocate for all the rights you want, here, but unless you come up with some new solutions:

    The only practical result will be unemployment and the evisceration of industries

    Oh, wait.

    Already there.

    1. I understand. When I was consulting with a footwear company in Lancashire a few years ago they told me that they used to make shoes and slippers there but it became cheaper to import them from Poland (in soviet times).

      Then it became cheaper to import from China although they were of inferior quality and many had to be rectified or have new trims added. They would be invited to China each year and told where to go to place orders. As you say factories and areas would specialise in different products so if they wanted leather soled items they went to x and if they wanted fur-trimmed they went to y.

      1. You also mentioned Germany which employed Turks as “guest workers”; Czech Republic employs Vietnamese in its car factories whilst its nurses go to work in Austria.

        But in these cases people are moving to improve their economic lot and not being told they have to work like Asian contract workers whilst the companies trebles its profits.

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