That's the difference between craftsmanship and mass production. Craftsmen DO get paid well and their products are expensive.There you go. The consumer drives all this, not the "capitalists" and not the "politicians", the consumer who wants to buy a TV for $200 that would cost him $450 if it was made by American unions. All you have to do now is convince everyone that it's in their best interest to pay more for stuff and leave the poor out of it.Yes, American capitalists outsourced American jobs for cheaper labor markets, with the full support of American politicians, and America is now full of poor people. Consequences!Let’s see? Do we want workers paid well to avoid a nation full of poor and lower class people, or do we want to pay a little more for the products we buy? Oh what terrible conundrum.They also pay higher prices for things. That's all you have to do here, convince everyone that allowing the poor to afford goods and services is a bad thing and we all need to pay higher prices.Yeah paying workers a good wage is just too difficult for Americans. Europeans can do it successfully because they are so much smarter. They don’t have legions of billionaires to support.The only way to stop that is to cut off the global economy. Labor costs money, and when you make that labor too expensive, the company finds alternatives. First there was outsourcing, just get cheaper workers to do the same job and if the consumer doesn't care about or can even tell that the quality is lower, they're happy because the poor can afford to shop. Now there's automation, and we see that everywhere. It won't be long before the unskilled and uneducated laborer will have a very difficult time finding work.I don’t. You’re confusing things.Nonsense.Very true. It’s the American Way to make sure workers are paid shit and the senior people get fabulously wealthy.Yeah, not so much...Because it’s the American Way.You might look at Western Europe. Their workers are unionized, have HC, and job security. Oh but we can’t have that in the US. The rich deserve all the profits.Because workers deserve a good wage.
They "deserve" it? Why?
Would you like to respond again, or are you satisfied with failing to answer the question?
Why does someone "deserve" a good paying job?
Why do you believe an employer has a responsibility which is greater and more important than the health of his business?
A better question is, why do you want all the money flowing to the top?
Here's the bottom line. You're going to have to demand higher prices from companies so they pay their workers more. Organize boycotts and go public saying cheap goods that the poor can afford to buy are a travesty and you insist on higher prices.
Prices at Walmart are significantly lower than we had in the past. A pair of Walmart jeans can be had for $11 bucks or so, less than what they cost at Sears in the 1980's
That's because those jeans are made in Vietnam now. People used to make a living wage making jeans here in the USA.
What’s really weird is many Americans are perfectly happy about this.
There are no such options. I wandered around a shoe store while the wife shopped and I checked shoe after shoe after shoe. Not a single one made here. Most were made in Vietnam. Priced as high as $50 or more.
You will never convince me that we can not profitably make a $50 shoe here in the US and still pay people a decent wage profitably. The problem is Wall Street wants higher and higher profits every year or they crush you.
The shoe business is a tough racket, there are relatively few US shoe manufacturers, although they do exist.
My New Balance shoes were built in Indonesia, although I prefer my Ecco loafers which are made in the Tremendous Republic of Slovakia.
I have a pair of Danner boots. Made in USA. I got them like 3 years ago. $150. Same boots today are $200. I hope they are paying those who make these by hand more than minimum wage.