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Re: What is too low of a wage for a worker in another country working for a outsource
What do you mean by what the market will bear? The lowest amount of money and highest amount of hours some one will work before they say no? Or do you mean the lowest amount of money a company can get away with paying someone?
I would rather that Americans be working those jobs, but if the are going to outsource jobs then those people should be making close to what someone over here would make.
People may have different cultural values and different levels of education, but they aren't fools who can't figure out if it's worthwhile to take a job.
An American can not take a job that pays 33½ cents per hour that requires that you work 80 hours a week. It possible they can take a job like that but they would be living in something like this eating rice and other cheap food-
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These outsourced companies in China are paid by so called American companies that were paying Americans above minimum wage for 40 hours a week to produce the same goods that Chinese workers make now at 33½ cents per hour for 80 hours a week.
For illustrative purposes imagine a powerful foreign country were the average income was $10,000 per hour and fabulous wealthy by American standards.Now supposedly all the politicians in all parties(just like Bill Clinton and the republicans did in the 1990s) in that country decided to stick their tongues in the assholes of these companies to toss their salad for votes and campaign contributions by loosening any tariffs and barriers that basically allowed those companies in that country all outsourced to china and other countries where they can pay practically next to nothing even though these same companies are fully capable of paying a $10,000 per hour. Do you think that over time that country would still be fabulously wealthy and powerful country by American standards even though almost all the companies outsourced and the ones that did stay cut so many corners their products are now junk in order to compete with now Chinese companies?
I'm sorry but this is bull****. Most people in ANY country have "no choice" but to work for a wage that the market will bear.
What do you mean by what the market will bear? The lowest amount of money and highest amount of hours some one will work before they say no? Or do you mean the lowest amount of money a company can get away with paying someone?
It certainly is. So why would you want to take their jobs away from them by preventing them from working for the market wage?
I would rather that Americans be working those jobs, but if the are going to outsource jobs then those people should be making close to what someone over here would make.
No it is not. It assumes that these companies are lying to these people telling them that can't pay them more money when they have for decades been paying Americans more money to do those jobs.This is an ignorant and patriarchal view of people in other countries,
No it doesn't.Again it assumes that companies are lying to these people telling them that they can't pay them more money when Americans have been doing those jobs for decades.and it assumes that they are inferior to Americans.
People may have different cultural values and different levels of education, but they aren't fools who can't figure out if it's worthwhile to take a job.
At least, no moreso than Americans are.
An American can not take a job that pays 33½ cents per hour that requires that you work 80 hours a week. It possible they can take a job like that but they would be living in something like this eating rice and other cheap food-
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For illustrative purposes, imagine that there was a powerful foreign country where the average income was $10,000 per hour and everyone was fabulously wealthy by American standards. Now suppose that this country pitied us poor Americans, so it roundly condemned our government and pressured it to raise the minimum wage to a level they deemed "fair" - say, a mere $500 per hour. Would we really be better off? Or would we just be out of work because not many people were willing to pay that?
These outsourced companies in China are paid by so called American companies that were paying Americans above minimum wage for 40 hours a week to produce the same goods that Chinese workers make now at 33½ cents per hour for 80 hours a week.
For illustrative purposes imagine a powerful foreign country were the average income was $10,000 per hour and fabulous wealthy by American standards.Now supposedly all the politicians in all parties(just like Bill Clinton and the republicans did in the 1990s) in that country decided to stick their tongues in the assholes of these companies to toss their salad for votes and campaign contributions by loosening any tariffs and barriers that basically allowed those companies in that country all outsourced to china and other countries where they can pay practically next to nothing even though these same companies are fully capable of paying a $10,000 per hour. Do you think that over time that country would still be fabulously wealthy and powerful country by American standards even though almost all the companies outsourced and the ones that did stay cut so many corners their products are now junk in order to compete with now Chinese companies?