SobieskiSavedEurope
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The Capitalist Republican solution is to have Americans compete with China's wages.
Apparently we deserve less as a society.
No, but we can't have unions forcing companies to grossly overpay their workers while Chinese make what they do. You can't compete that way, and outside of government, unions are now a thing of the past.
No you don't compete with China in the first place, you even the score, by throwing CEO's behind bars who outsource as a criminalized behavior, you make an example, and they'll behave. If they try to move their companies out of the country, you Nationalize them.
Leadership by example, to put them into line by fear.
I certainly don't want Chinese to make the same income as us, but it's happening, meaning China will become the top power house.
That's a problem for us.
I certainly don't want Americans to make the same income as us, but it's happening, meaning American workers will lose income.
That's again, another problem for us.
In a free country we don't allow government to run our businesses. If you think that's a great idea, maybe Cuba is more suited for your liking.
Over here, businesses compete by producing and selling at the cheapest cost. It's been that way for decades now. CEO's are not in charge of that, the American consumer is. And until we can adjust our way of thinking when it comes to purchases, it will stay that way.
You can't blame a CEO because a CEO is answering the demands of his or her customers. HTF can you make that a crime or illegal?
Actually, the USA long had strong business regulation through state regulations.
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To say that the USA customer is responsible for outsourcing beyond the CEO, is flat out ridiculous.
The CEO's started the outsourcing, and eventually it has got to the point where everybody has to outsource to compete, we don't even have much of a choice anymore.
Because of falling real wages, we are getting also to the point where we also are forced to buy cheaper, and those real wages are falling because of outsourced jobs in large part.
What's best for the people is what's best for the people.
That's not necessarily freedom, if our society is falling apart because of free will, then freedom therefor has very little, in fact perhaps a negative value.
CEO's didn't start outsourcing just for the hell of it. Consumers demanded cheaper products, and now it's to the point of cheapest products.
We have three goals when it comes to production in the US:
* low cost products.
* high paying jobs.
* reasonable to good returns on investment.
The problem is you can't have all three. So we as a country chose good investments and lower priced products.
Lower priced products sell the most. Good investment returns attract more investors. A CEO is in charge of trying to provide both. If a CEO doesn't provide both or either, then that CEO is going to be looking for another job, likely with less pay. That's how it works.
Total bull-shit.
The products never truly became cheaper, if they had real incomes would've not fallen behind so much, because Americans would have not had an inflation epidemic since 1970.
The problem is CEO's are greedy parasites at this point, they're not the same CEO's prior to the 1960's who took care of workers, and took pride in products.
Now it's all about money, and cutting corners to maximize profits at all costs, to outsource as much as possible to muster more profits, at all costs, even if tanks the economy.
Very short-sighted, and greedy, and I quite frankly don't respect such vermin.