sheslostcontrol
Well-known member
We don't value labor anymore.
In the past making 20/hr + bennies was good middle class pay. Now some would have you believe blue collar/manf. work doesn't deserve that kind of pay, since it doesn't require "skills".
We've come from valuing a capitalist economic system that worked for the greater good, to blindly supporting a capitalist system that works for the top 1% of wage earners, and against the rest. In the 50s and 60s companies paid executives less and had more workers working for higher wages. In the 70s through the 90s and into today, companies care less and less about the greater good of the economy and focus on maximizing profits "by any means necessary".
It all goes back to what we value in labor.
Americans simply cannot compete with workers in other countries. The dems and repubs in DC can yammer on blaming each other for high unemployment. But both parties continue to do a disservice to the American people by not addressing the underlying causes of offshoring and high unemployment. The media is a joke. They'd have us up in arms over social issues or celebrity gossip than report the facts.
And the fact is, American workers are no longer employable in a global economy. Has nothing to do with Unions (well it does, but only in the sense that union jobs were traditionally good paying middle class careers). Has nothing to do with regulation or taxes. Everything to do with overall cost of living here vs. China, India, Balglesdesh, ect. Corporations will continue shipping jobs to these places as long as they can get by paying workers pennies on the dollar -- and as long as we Americans continue buying goods made with cheap asian labor.
In the past making 20/hr + bennies was good middle class pay. Now some would have you believe blue collar/manf. work doesn't deserve that kind of pay, since it doesn't require "skills".
We've come from valuing a capitalist economic system that worked for the greater good, to blindly supporting a capitalist system that works for the top 1% of wage earners, and against the rest. In the 50s and 60s companies paid executives less and had more workers working for higher wages. In the 70s through the 90s and into today, companies care less and less about the greater good of the economy and focus on maximizing profits "by any means necessary".
It all goes back to what we value in labor.
Americans simply cannot compete with workers in other countries. The dems and repubs in DC can yammer on blaming each other for high unemployment. But both parties continue to do a disservice to the American people by not addressing the underlying causes of offshoring and high unemployment. The media is a joke. They'd have us up in arms over social issues or celebrity gossip than report the facts.
And the fact is, American workers are no longer employable in a global economy. Has nothing to do with Unions (well it does, but only in the sense that union jobs were traditionally good paying middle class careers). Has nothing to do with regulation or taxes. Everything to do with overall cost of living here vs. China, India, Balglesdesh, ect. Corporations will continue shipping jobs to these places as long as they can get by paying workers pennies on the dollar -- and as long as we Americans continue buying goods made with cheap asian labor.
