While not practical for operations which very low processing times and correspondingly high change-over times (both values defined by takt time), it is nevertheless a Lean Manufacturing goal to achieve single piece flow in every operation possible. Achieving one-piece flow requires the elimination of waste.
People are poor because thereâs something lacking in them, and changing them is therefore the only effective remedy. From this he suggests doing away with public solutions such as affirmative action, welfare, and income support systems, including âAFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment insurance, and the rest.
By not working, welfare recipients may be responding rationally to the incentives our public policy makers have established. And yet we know that over the long term, a job is better than welfare. Census figures show that only 2.6% of full-time workers are poor, compared with 23.9% of adults who do not work. And, while many anti-poverty activists decry low-wage jobs, even starting at a minimum-wage job can be a springboard out of poverty.