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Strategies & Market Trends : ahhaha's ahs
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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (7989)4/13/2006 3:06:31 PM
From: deenoRead Replies (1) of 24758
 
"with all due respect

get real"

First Im not Ah.

"labor does not dictate what drives the capitalist..."

Dictate? GM, dock workers, Delta?

"for now they are just the cheapest sub contract bidder for manufacturing"

So sub contracters cant be capitalists?

"what happens when they are undercut by say, africa?"

Um... then they will have to change. You mean capitalist cant be undercut? they cant lose?

"as a capitalist, i could not care less whether my labor is 'cheap' or not"

Um..I guess then your not very labor intensive. But not caring less? Give me what you call a "capitalist company" that uses labor and couldnt care less?

"what i care about is productivity and profit...

cheap labor is by far no guarantee of that, in fact in this environment, it is the opposite

obviously 'cheap' is in the eye of the capitalist beholder....what i look for is *value*....and i reward accordingly"

Thank you for making my point. Sweatshops as you call them provide employment to people in need of a job. Once they have a job they can look out for better opportunities. When they look, companies will look at their value and the sweatshop will either let them go if there is no value or entice him to stay (hence Bene's in my last post). I see nothing non-capitalistic about this. Isnt that what happened to the Japan Steel industry? Are they communists?

Now I happen to agree with you and grace on property rights but just because their labor cost are lower does not make them non-capitalist. In a lot of way Ah's right they are moving to more business freedoms and we are moving more to a state/federal dictated business climate.

GO STEM CELLS!
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